Steve Westaby is a celebrated world-famous heart surgeon who is renowned for being the first surgeon in history to fit a patient with a new type of artificial heart. During his 35-year career as a surgeon he worked at several of the UK’s top hospitals and performed over 11,000 heart operations. He won the Ray C. Fish Award for Scientific Achievement (2004). In 2004 Steve Westaby was featured in the BBC documentary Your Life in Their Hands, which is a long-running series on the subject of surgery.
发表于2024-11-21
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正如Westaby自己所说,“我们是对肾上腺素上瘾的人,始终亢奋,始终渴望行动。从流血的病人到停搏的心脏,从一篇篇真实的故事让人揪心,激动,难过。有及时抢救的成功案例,有运用韦斯塔比气管插管术,柏林之心,AB-180心室辅助装置,贾维克2000的成功案例,也有因为失误操作导...
评分 评分 评分我日常喜爱读小说,热衷于在创作者的笔下领略起承转合,挖掘伏笔铺排,赞叹绝地反击。虽然也为不少角色的生死揪心,但大体是知道走向,有个预期的。 拿到《打开一颗心》的时候,也有类似的预期。虽说是非虚构,但总是习惯性的视为“故事”。要给我讲医学史上的故事对不对,人类...
评分1.医生职业崇高 “因为常年接洗手护士用力递来的手术器械,我手掌上的筋膜缩短,手变得像爪子。这叫‘杜普伊特伦缩’(Dupuytren’s contracture)。现在我甚至没法恰当地和人打招呼,因为我的手始终蜷曲着,就像总握着一把剪刀、持针器或胸骨锯。这是真正的‘职业适应’,也在...
图书标签: 医学 英文原版 自传 科普 英国 传记 纪实 故事
An incredible memoir from one of the world’s most eminent heart surgeons and some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he’s worked on.
Grim Reaper sits on the heart surgeon’s shoulder. A slip of the hand and life ebbs away.
The balance between life and death is so delicate, and the heart surgeon walks that rope between the two. In the operating room there is no time for doubt. It is flesh, blood, rib-retractors and pumping the vital organ with your bare hand to squeeze the life back into it. An off-day can have dire consequences – this job has a steep learning curve, and the cost is measured in human life. Cardiac surgery is not for the faint of heart.
Professor Stephen Westaby took chances and pushed the boundaries of heart surgery. He saved hundreds of lives over the course of a thirty-five year career and now, in his astounding memoir, Westaby details some of his most remarkable and poignant cases – such as the baby who had suffered multiple heart attacks by six months old, a woman who lived the nightmare of locked-in syndrome, and a man whose life was powered by a battery for eight years.
A powerful, important and incredibly moving book, Fragile Lives offers an exceptional insight into the exhilarating and sometimes tragic world of heart surgery, and how it feels to hold someone’s life in your hands.
跟神外那本Do No Harm比, 这本书的调调不那么elegant, 内容更侧重于手术而不像Do No Harm那样更哲学考虑终极关怀更多一些; 这本书主要案例都是作者自己在心脏手术方面的innovation的例(如人工心脏), 神外那本例子感觉更寻常, 手术也更calm.
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评分3.5星,读原著对外科词汇还是有点囫囵,但是还是好看的
评分作为一个很想学医的人,这本书满足了我对于医生一切的想象。
评分和好多小伙伴一样,看完Henry Marsh那本脑外之后来Stephen Westaby这边看心外。之前想看的Under the Knife就是他的新作。顶级外科医生们退休后转行科普类畅销书作者,人生也是很完满了。
Fragile Lives 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书