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.
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.
發表於2024-05-23
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正如Westaby自己所說,“我們是對腎上腺素上癮的人,始終亢奮,始終渴望行動。從流血的病人到停搏的心髒,從一篇篇真實的故事讓人揪心,激動,難過。有及時搶救的成功案例,有運用韋斯塔比氣管插管術,柏林之心,AB-180心室輔助裝置,賈維剋2000的成功案例,也有因為失誤操作導...
評分作為醫學生的自己也有那麼一點感觸吧 。 有一章節狄更斯的話讓我印象深刻:“擁有一顆永不變硬的心,永不厭煩的脾氣,一雙手觸碰人時永遠不會傷害彆人。”醫學是需要溫度的,看那些真正的醫學大傢,內心深處都是特彆善良的人啊,不然怎麼可以犧牲自己那麼多的光陰,青春,傢庭...
評分這是一本比較薄的書,薄的是其僅200多頁的篇幅,然而這又是一本極其厚的書,厚的是每一個案例均傾注著作者豐富的學識、經驗和努力,每一個故事中的主角,都在生與死之間徘徊。 由於這是關於心髒疾病的故事,當看到作者描述的每一次病癥以及手術過程,都會有一種“揪心”的感覺...
圖書標籤: 醫學 英文原版 自傳 科普 英國 傳記 紀實 故事
和好多小夥伴一樣,看完Henry Marsh那本腦外之後來Stephen Westaby這邊看心外。之前想看的Under the Knife就是他的新作。頂級外科醫生們退休後轉行科普類暢銷書作者,人生也是很完滿瞭。
評分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.
評分醫學人文類書籍,今年看過最好的書,集醫學知識、種族、人文、生活等元素為一體。特彆是youtube上可以找到相關醫學案例的采訪,增加瞭閱讀體驗,太精彩瞭!
評分心髒外科手術醫生的救治經曆,非常詳細和具體,他的方法和技術也比較前沿。非常非常推薦,比國內那些水水的醫生日記有料一韆倍。誰知道自己和身邊的人會發生什麼?裏麵的個案都非常有代錶性,讓我更加瞭解不單是心髒手術,還有醫療的疏忽和延誤,生死一綫。
評分心髒外科手術醫生的救治經曆,非常詳細和具體,他的方法和技術也比較前沿。非常非常推薦,比國內那些水水的醫生日記有料一韆倍。誰知道自己和身邊的人會發生什麼?裏麵的個案都非常有代錶性,讓我更加瞭解不單是心髒手術,還有醫療的疏忽和延誤,生死一綫。
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