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In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from death. When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way the surgeons walked away. As he soon understood, this detachment is a crucial survival strategy in a profession where death is only a heartbeat away. In Open Heart, Westaby reflects on over 11,000 surgeries, showing us why the procedures have never become routine and will never be.

Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, Borrowing Life gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant.

Until very recently, if you were to ask most doctors, they would tell you there were only two kinds of medicine: the quack kind, and the evidence-based kind. The former is baseless, and the latter based on the best information human effort could buy. Well, Eric Topol isn't most doctors, and he suggests you entertain the notion of a third kind of medicine, one that will make the evidence-based state-of-the-art stuff look scarcely better than an alchemist trying to animate a homunculus in a jar.

Sixty percent of individuals over the age of 20 - or 58 million people in the US - are overweight. As the obesity epidemic continues to grow, many Americans are researching the benefits and complications of weight-loss surgeries. Weight Loss Surgery for Dummies, 2nd Edition is the most up-to-date and authoritative guide to understanding the impact of surgical weight-loss before, during, and after surgery.

Congratulations! You are planning or have just had plastic surgery to improve your appearance. Isn’t it frustrating that before you can begin to enjoy your new face or body, you have to spend days or weeks feeling swollen and bruised? Board Certified Plastic Surgeons in San Diego, across southern California, and in Tijuana, Mexico refer their clients to me to reduce the heavy, tight feeling that post-operative swelling can bring. Even if you’re not my client, you can still benefit from this advice. In the Plastic Surgery Recovery Handbook, I share my top tips picked up from my training ...

“Profit killers” are costly expenditures that do one thing: Kill your practice's profits. In her 20 years of experience in the medical cosmetic industry, Kelly Smith has identified 10 key areas that can immediately infuse massive profits into every elective medical practice.

Are you considering Breast Reduction Surgery? Read this book first! This is essential reading before you have breast reduction surgery. If you’ve been lugging around big boobs for a while, you may have considered having breast reduction surgery. This book with guide you through the whole experience of breast reduction surgery from choosing a surgeon, to the day of surgery, and how to optimize your recovery. Here's what you will learn in this book: Part 1: Understanding Breast Reduction - An Introduction to Breast Reduction - Benefits of Breast Reduction Surgery - Risks of Breast Reduction...

Don’t sign up for weight-loss surgery until you’ve read this guide! Between eating “healthy” and spending hours sweating in the gym, getting the scale to go down even a tiny bit takes loads of effort and patience. But imagine if you lost up to 70 percent of your excess weight in just one year. That’s the power of bariatric surgery. While there are some risks to the procedure, you can minimize these risks by taking the four simple steps outlined in this guide. With the right information, you’ll be able to lose the weight you’ve been struggling to put off once and for all.

EXCLUSIVE BONUS Included: Unlock the "Gallbladder-Free Fitness Guide" to support your journey to a healthier, active lifestyle! Are you struggling to find the right balance in your diet after gallbladder removal? Are digestive discomfort and confusing dietary advice leaving you frustrated and anxious? Discover the ultimate solution with the "No Gallbladder Diet Cookbook"—your comprehensive guide to living well without a gallbladder. Navigating life after a cholecystectomy can feel overwhelming, especially when it comes to what you can and cannot eat. The "No Gallbladder Diet Cookbook" is ...

With each passing year, bariatric surgeries are becoming more and more common place. After years of frustrating weight loss and regains, patients are looking for permanent answers to their obesity problems. New procedures, new techniques and new surgeons enter the field of bariatrics each year. In this newly revised book, Dr. Alvarez pulls back the curtain on the Gastric Sleeve surgery and tells why it is the only bariatric surgery he’ll perform, the risks associated with the surgery, and what patients need to know to be one of the successful permanent losers.

In this book, Dr. Vuong offers pertinent psychological and self-improvement tips that are necessary for success after weight loss surgery, which is a rarely covered topic. Drawing on his professional experience working with obesity patients and his own personal journey for enlightenment, he has provided a concise yet profound manual for losing weight and gaining enlightenment.

Facing a liver transplant can feel like stepping into the unknown. Whether you’re the patient preparing for surgery or a caregiver offering support, it’s natural to feel overwhelmed. This guide is here to help make the process clearer, less intimidating, and more manageable for everyone involved. Liver transplants are life-changing procedures, offering patients the chance to regain their health and quality of life. But the road to recovery is a journey, and knowing what to expect can make it much smoother. This guide breaks everything down into easy-to-follow sections so that you and ...

Veteran journalists Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman follow the remarkable life of heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub from his formative years in Egypt, through spectacular success at Cairo University, to his long and distinguished career in Britain. Although at times he clashed with the medical establishment in London, Yacoub pioneered great advances in heart surgery. He was knighted in 1992, and in 2014, he was awarded the highest honor in the gift of the Queen, the Order of Merit.

Today we have the knowledge, understanding, and technology to predictably relieve pain and neurological deficits like never before—yet many patients are still getting subpar care. Foundational knowledge of surgical spine care isn't spreading to the medical community, let alone to patients, whose quality of life hangs in the balance. With The Back Story on Spine Care, orthopedic specialist Dr. Drew Bednar presents case studies that illuminate the common issues plaguing patients—and their treatment—today.

We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world. But transplant surgery is as ancient as the pyramids, with a history more surprising than we might expect. Paul Craddock takes us on a journey—from sixteenth-century skin grafting to contemporary stem cell transplants—uncovering stories of operations performed by unexpected people in unexpected places. Bringing together philosophy, science and cultural history, Spare Parts explores how transplant surgery constantly tested the boundaries between human, animal, and machine.

Bone broth has the power to help us lose weight, improve health, reduce inflammation, and even reverse aging. Loaded with nutrients, bone broth is one of the healthiest broths one can consume. In this book, you will learn all about bone broth and its powers. You will learn about its history, its nutritional content, its health benefits, how to use it to lose weight and suppress inflammation, and why you should be implemcontententing it in your life.

La doctora Gloria Villalba vive la neurocirugía no solo con auténtica pasión, sino como una autentica adicción. En este impactante libro se desnuda sin censura y nos muestra una personalidad indomable, que contrasta con una sensibilidad y empatía extraordinarias. Porque, como ella mismo confiesa, no le ha sido fácil -ni le sigue siendo- trabajar en una profesión con zonas muy oscuras, donde la integridad y la justicia demasiado a menudo brillan por su ausencia.

When diagnosed with cancer, patients who need a bone marrow or stem cell transplants need support on multiple levels. This popular book, written by survivor and health care professional Keren Stronach in collaboration with the National Bone Marrow Transplant Link, addresses everything—preparing for transplant, the transplant process, and post-transplant issues and topics. Psychosocial as well as educational information regarding the entire process is covered. Survivor quotes are also peppered throughout the audiobook.

In this absorbing narrative, Dr. Chris Honey, an accomplished neurosurgeon at Vancouver General Hospital, weaves his personal journey together with case studies that reflect the thrill of scientific discovery and the limitations of medicine. Operating on a terminally ill child amid an Ebola outbreak in Liberia, he questions his preconceptions about what it means to "win" against a disease. Reflecting on his own path into neurosurgery, he brings to life a relatively new, high stakes field of medicine—one that historically demanded emotional detachment and often attracts extreme personalities

Dr. Ben Carson is known around the world for breakthroughs in neurosurgery that have brought hope where no hope existed. In Gifted Hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions at age 33. Filled with fascinating case histories, Gifted Hands will transplant you into the operating room to witness surgeries that made headlines around the world, and into the private mind of a compassionate, God-fearing physician who lives to help others.