Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

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Starting from the beginning of his career, we follow how a person develops into a top cardiac surgeon operating on vulnerable people and inventing new procedures. Operating on extremely ill people who will die without the operation means that some will not survive anyway. As medical students in this new age of technology and intense competition we feel so intimidated and unsure.

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It reaches a consensus on classroom placement for the child, determines any devices or special assistance the child needs, and identifies the specialists who will work with the child. People with Fragile X do not all have the same signs and symptoms, but they do have some things in common. He has claimed to have 'never been a straight-A student' and attributes his success in surgery primarily down to his manual dexterity, ambidexterity and ability to draw – traits he claims to have had from an early age. The Knife's Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon by Stephen Westaby review — life at the sharp end of surgery". Each of these case studies, from a young African mother and her sick child whom he met while working in Saudi Arabia in the 1980s to a university student who collapses not far from his hospital in Oxford, is told in impressive depth.Our Fragile Lives appeal aims to improve the health and nutritional status of pregnant women, babies and adolescent girls throughout Pakistan and Kenya. Many reviews complain about the arrogance of the author, and truth be told, I didn't mind that part. The book is written in such an empathic manner that one could rejoice with the author when a patient is saved. This is free download Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table by Stephen Westaby complete book soft copy.

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The author is a retired heart surgeon in the UK, so a lot of the commentary about their healthcare system (NHS) felt disconnected to me. For the unfortunate patient, any prospect of survival depends upon having an experienced trauma surgeon at hand. Westaby spent years in a draughty portable building at the John Radcliffe hospital fighting for funds.This experience has clearly directed his career and his desires to help those who would otherwise be written off. Fragile Lives, by Professor Stephen Westaby, is a memoir that is both awe inspiring and heart-rending. He could have added 'or in those first world countries that won't pay for its citizens to have these extraordinarily expensive operations with pumps or other implants that can cost as much as a fancy car'. I'm not quite sure we'll stop being irritating and I don't think it helps for us to get upset at being looked down on.

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I feel my heart sinking when I was reading one of the sufferer's stories, Anna a girl who got surgery 5 times for myxoma, a benign tumor lurking each time from a different site in the heart.The people he operates on he describes in detail, I felt for him when he lost a patient, I rejoiced with him when his inventions kept people alive.