The Open Heart Club

Author : Gabriel Brownstein
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781610399470

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The Open Heart Club by Gabriel Brownstein Pdf

This absorbing and poignant book is not merely the story of one writer's flawed heart. It is a history of cardiac medicine, a candid personal journey, and a profound reflection on mortality. Born in 1966 with a congenital heart defect known as the tetralogy of Fallot, Gabriel Brownstein entered the world just as doctors were learning to operate on conditions like his. He received a life-saving surgery at five years old, and since then has ridden wave after wave of medical innovation, a series of interventions that have kept his heart beating. The Open Heart Club is both a memoir of a life on the edge of medicine's reach and a history of the remarkable people who have made such a life possible. It begins with the visionary anatomists of the seventeenth century, tells the stories of the doctors (all women) who invented pediatric cardiology, and includes the lives of patients and physicians struggling to understand the complexities of the human heart. The Open Heart Club is a riveting work of compassionate storytelling, a journey into the dark hinterlands between sickness and health lit by bright moments of humor and inspiration.

Author : G. Wayne Miller
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780609807248

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King of Hearts by G. Wayne Miller Pdf

Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the invention of open-heart surgery, yet, until now, no journalist has ever brought all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph to life. This is the story of the surgeon many call the father of open-heart surgery, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, who, along with colleagues at University Hospital in Minneapolis and a small band of pioneers elsewhere, accomplished what many experts considered to be an impossible feat: He opened the heart, repaired fatal defects, and made the miraculous routine. Acclaimed author G. Wayne Miller draws on archival research and exclusive interviews with Lillehei and legendary pioneers such as Michael DeBakey and Christiaan Barnard, taking readers into the lives of these doctors and their patients as they progress toward their landmark achievement. In the tradition of works by Richard Rhodes and Tracy Kidder, King of Hearts tells the story of an important and gripping piece of forgotten science history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : UFL:31262071226400

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1210 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : NYPL:33433016643995

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : UOM:39015007307484

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Hospital Management by Anonim Pdf

Author : Zoople Journals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1726331970

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Zipper Club Member by Zoople Journals Pdf

Lined notebook journal features cool zipper club member art. Perfect bound 120 page 6 x 9 journal features cream-colored lined writing paper with date entry line at the top. Great gift for family member or friend to use as a diary or to record thoughts regarding cardiac surgery and healthy heart living.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:319510007430526

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Knowledge & Illustrated Scientific News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Science
ISBN : IND:30000113969087

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Knowledge by Anonim Pdf

Author : Federation of American Hospitals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069818023

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Review - Federation of American Hospitals by Federation of American Hospitals Pdf

Author : Zoople Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1726332306

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Zipper Club Member by Zoople Books Pdf

Lined notebook journal features cool zipper club member art. Perfect bound 120 page 6 x 9 journal features cream-colored lined writing paper with date entry line at the top. Great gift for family member or friend to use as a diary or to record thoughts regarding cardiac surgery and healthy heart living.

Author : Christine Madrid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977244920

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The Open Heart Club by Christine Madrid Pdf

In this grief journal, Valenzuela uses her own candid and vulnerable excerpts from her personal journey of grief. Having suffered the loss of her own child, Valenzuela found healing and truth through the process of writing. Darkness, fears and tragedy are shared with cutting honesty, as Valenzuela takes the reader through the chasm of grief. Valenzuela's need to connect with her son after death was what took her from a surreal and sorrowful state of suspended animation through a metamorphosis that led into a whole new perspective on loss and life. The reader is tenderly guided and prompted to begin their own personal story of loss. The attached pages allow for the reader to express openly their feelings, memories, thoughts and hopes. The message of healing is provided by Valenzuela throughout the book with the hope that the reader will find acceptance of their loss and the ability to both mourn their loved one and live their own life to the fullest once more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Urban renewal
ISBN : PSU:000069843952

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Urban Renewal and Public Housing in Canada by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Gospel music
ISBN : UOM:39015057459953

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GMA Christian/gospel Industry Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Mennonites
ISBN : PSU:000063010091

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Christian Living by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sandeep Jauhar
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780374717001

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Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar Pdf

The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live. Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world’s first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. We meet C. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient’s circulatory system to a healthy donor’s, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker—by accident. Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family’s history of heart ailments and the patients he’s treated over many years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.