图书标签: 医学 英文原版 自传 科普 英国 传记 纪实 故事
发表于2024-11-21
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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.
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.
推荐这本书,一个心脏外科医生的自传。
评分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.
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。
评分Audible听完。可能是英式发音+专有名词不少,听的过程总走神。但认真听的部分,都觉可以拍成美剧了。果然人生如戏。医生足够坦诚,幽默,历史正是要感谢他这样的人,推动着技术进步帮助生命存续,而反过来,有时候,生存还是死亡,这真是个遇上什么医生的问题…. 印象特别深的,一是那个反复多次得心脏肿瘤的姑娘- 其实整本书都让我觉得,人类比想象的更坚强, 二是那个纪录片对象用仪器帮助心脏,但后来忘了换电池的 - 依附于机器或外部条件,确实总有危险,还有那个某exotic国家女子没挽回自己孩子的 - 真是灾难中深刻的苦。
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...
评分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...
评分接近十个小时,断断续续地读完。 真的很赞。让我对医学,对外科,对人体,对心脏,都有了更深的认识。 中间有好几次不忍直视书中的文字,那些详细生动描写手术过程的文字,看着看着就感觉自己身上会感受到疼痛,自己的呼吸急促。我自认看过的医学剧破案剧相比这个阶段的同龄人...
评分 评分接近十个小时,断断续续地读完。 真的很赞。让我对医学,对外科,对人体,对心脏,都有了更深的认识。 中间有好几次不忍直视书中的文字,那些详细生动描写手术过程的文字,看着看着就感觉自己身上会感受到疼痛,自己的呼吸急促。我自认看过的医学剧破案剧相比这个阶段的同龄人...
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