Fragile Lives

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.

出版者:HarperCollins

作者:Stephen Westaby

页数:320

出版时间:2017-2-9

价格:GBP 14.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780008196769

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.

读后感

这本是心外科医生Stephen Westaby写的手术故事, 读的时候自己难免和和Henry Marsh的讲述神经外科手术的Do No Harm一书比较. Westaby有很多新创的, 在英国第一例的心脏手术, 他在书里也阐述了数个这样的例; 所以该书的大多数故事都是特别困难的病例. 每个病例也都写得很详细, ...  

这本是心外科医生Stephen Westaby写的手术故事, 读的时候自己难免和和Henry Marsh的讲述神经外科手术的Do No Harm一书比较. Westaby有很多新创的, 在英国第一例的心脏手术, 他在书里也阐述了数个这样的例; 所以该书的大多数故事都是特别困难的病例. 每个病例也都写得很详细, ...  

有如读一本心外入门手册。这样一本珍贵的书一定值得在读完后留下些什么，也值得在文字之外多了解些什么。 一、一些视频参考 1. Heart-lung machine心肺机。由体外系统接替心肺功能，使用高钾溶液停搏心脏后进行手术。 视频参考： 心肺机原理 2. 书中提到的部分案例在作者的TED ...  

8.5分。 很奇怪，离开医生这个行业以后，又开始喜欢看医学类的书籍。想了一下，大概是因为，越是看到人类在疾病面前的苦痛、挣扎、希望、绝望，就能越深入地探测到医生内心那些犹疑、偏执、茫然、和冰冷的自我否定，我就会越加肯定自己多年以前的选择，正如这位伟大的心脏外科...  

用户评价

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。

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。

we were adrenaline junkies living on a continuous high, craving action. sleep deprivation underpins the psychopathy of the surgical mind - immunity to stress, an ability to take risks , the loss of empathy.

心脏外科手术医生的救治经历，非常详细和具体，他的方法和技术也比较前沿。非常非常推荐，比国内那些水水的医生日记有料一千倍。谁知道自己和身边的人会发生什么？里面的个案都非常有代表性，让我更加了解不单是心脏手术，还有医疗的疏忽和延误，生死一线。

推荐这本书，一个心脏外科医生的自传。