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OverviewAt one time, heart disease was a death sentence. By the middle of the twentieth century, it was killing millions and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier. On September 7, 1895, Ludwig Rehn successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time. In 1929, Dr. Werner Forssman inserted a cardiac catheter in his own arm and forced the X-ray technician on duty to take a photo as he successfully threaded it down the vein into his own heart . . . and lived. And on June 6, 1944--D-Day--another momentous event occurred far from the Normandy beaches: Dr. Dwight Harken sutured the shrapnel-injured heart of a young soldier and saved his life, and thus the term cardiac surgeon was born. In The Heart Healers, James Forrester, MD, tells the story of these rebels and the risks they took with their own lives and the lives of others to heal the most elemental of human organs: the heart. The result is a compelling chronicle of a disease and its cure, a disease that is still with us, but one that is slowly being worn away by the Heart Healers. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James Forrester , M D , Jonathan YenPublisher: Tantor Audio Imprint: Tantor Audio ISBN: 9798200023684Publication Date: 29 September 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews"It's a book of marvels.-- ""Publishers Weekly Starred Review""" Author InformationJames Forrester, MD, is a world-renowned cardiac surgeon and the former chief of the Division of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai. In addition, he is a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. James lives in Malibu, California, with his wife. James Forrester, MD, is a world-renowned cardiac surgeon and the former chief of the Division of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai. In addition, he is a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. James lives in Malibu, California, with his wife. Jonathan Yen is a commercial voice-over artist and Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. He was inspired by the Golden Age of Radio, and while the gold was gone by the time he got there, he has carried that inspiration through to commercial work, voice acting, and stage productions. From vintage Howard Fast science fiction to naturalist Paul Rosolie's true adventures in the Amazon, he loves to tell a good story. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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