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Opening a Heart: a Heart Surgeon's Story of Life and Death on the Operating Table
"I have handled 12,000 hearts." The author has been practicing in cardiac and thoracic surgery for decades and has outstanding surgical results. This book not only brings together some classic cases experienced by the author (most of them occurred between the 1970s and 2000s), but also explains the author's mental journey. A poor boy from a working-class family was inspired by the medical documentaries of his childhood and hurt by the death of his relatives, and finally trained himself to become
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Life on the Blade: Opening the Heart of a Cardiac Surgeon
Cardiac surgeons have the mysterious power to open chests, perform blood transfusions, and bring the dead back to life, but they are also living people who experience core emotions that all humans share—most of the time. A freak sports accident shaped Westaby into one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons. "I went from a withered violet to a free-spirited, arrogant bastard. I became immune to stress and became a habitual risk-taker, always hungry for excitement, attracting high-risk cases to m
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