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2024-12-22
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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1.醫生職業崇高 “因為常年接洗手護士用力遞來的手術器械,我手掌上的筋膜縮短,手變得像爪子。這叫‘杜普伊特倫縮’(Dupuytren’s contracture)。現在我甚至沒法恰當地和人打招呼,因為我的手始終蜷麯著,就像總握著一把剪刀、持針器或胸骨鋸。這是真正的‘職業適應’,也在...
評分有如讀一本心外入門手冊。這樣一本珍貴的書一定值得在讀完後留下些什麼,也值得在文字之外多瞭解些什麼。 一、一些視頻參考 1. Heart-lung machine心肺機。由體外係統接替心肺功能,使用高鉀溶液停搏心髒後進行手術。 視頻參考: 心肺機原理 2. 書中提到的部分案例在作者的TED ...
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...
評分書讀到一半 我的淚腺有點吊詭地處於崩潰的邊緣 因為這本書無可避免地讓我想起瞭我幾年前去世的外公,在今天的南通市人民醫院耳鼻喉科醫生辦公室門口那塊牌子上,還清楚地注明著他的大名,和他如何在江北一手開設瞭五官專科。這種後知後覺地惋惜讓我鼻酸,站在私人情感的維度,...
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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.
評分頂級專科醫生大概是人類當中最接近神的職業瞭!
評分跟神外那本Do No Harm比, 這本書的調調不那麼elegant, 內容更側重於手術而不像Do No Harm那樣更哲學考慮終極關懷更多一些; 這本書主要案例都是作者自己在心髒手術方麵的innovation的例(如人工心髒), 神外那本例子感覺更尋常, 手術也更calm.
評分3.5星,讀原著對外科詞匯還是有點囫圇,但是還是好看的
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