Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (500 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072JWWP6L |
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| Number of Pages | : | 314 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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In a profession where failure is literally a heartbeat away and the cost of that failure is death, how else could he live with the consequences of his performance? In Open Heart, Westaby reflects on over 11,000 surgeries, showing us why the procedures have never become routine and will never be. Open Heart offers unforgettable insight into how to push back death until nothing is left to do but to accept it.. As he soon understood, this detachment was a crucial survival strategy. One of the world's leading heart surgeons shares the hard-won lessons of a life lived where failure and death are just a heartbeat away.When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during an open heart surgery for the f
Daniel said A breathtaking personal account of a renown surgeon. Surgeons are not those kind of people, who have their own hearts open as often as they do that to others. Stephen Westaby account of a lifetime of a career is a good one for even those far in the field of management - learning how organization, wits and coura. Five Stars Tara Fussell Eye opening. Well written.. A heart surgeon's reflections on his patients and career. I thoroughly enjoyed Stephen Westaby’s memoir Open Heart, A Cardiac Surgeon’s Story of Life and Death on the Operating Table. This book is a collection of stories about his patients who he helped over the years with cardiac surgery. He was a pione