具體描述
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.
著者簡介
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.
圖書目錄
1 The Ether Dome 1
2 Humble Beginnings 14
3 Lord Brock’s Boots 26
4 Township Boy 38
5 The Girl with No Name 54
6 The Man with Two Hearts 85
7 Saving Julie’s Heart 114
8 Black Banana 137
9 Domino Heart 163
10 Life on a Battery 187
11 Anna’s Story 212
12 Mr Clarke 237
13 Adrenaline Rush 247
14 Despair 269
15 Double Jeopardy 285
16 Your Life in Their Hands 305
Afterword 321
Acknowledgements 327
Glossary 333
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讀後感
英国著名心外科医生Stephen Westaby执笔自己近50年的从医经历，经手过12000颗心脏，一个个活生生的例子惊心动魄，看完的感觉是膜拜医生、敬畏生命。作者有天赋，具有大脑半球双侧优势，左右手都能动手术，敢于冒险尝试新技术，里面的手术描写很详细，都是一些疑难及创新的例子...
評分书读到一半 我的泪腺有点吊诡地处于崩溃的边缘 因为这本书无可避免地让我想起了我几年前去世的外公，在今天的南通市人民医院耳鼻喉科医生办公室门口那块牌子上，还清楚地注明着他的大名，和他如何在江北一手开设了五官专科。这种后知后觉地惋惜让我鼻酸，站在私人情感的维度，...
評分接近十个小时，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...
評分 評分终于动手开始写这本书的读后感啦，这件事在我的To do list上面待了三天了。主要是写这个读后感有一些些压力，自己的感想丰富而零碎，怕自己没记录周全；作为一个医学生的自己又对其中的一些专业知识有一些自己的思考。所以总体而言，这篇读后感是略带专业性的，充满理性的，又...
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Audible聽完。可能是英式發音+專有名詞不少，聽的過程總走神。但認真聽的部分，都覺可以拍成美劇瞭。果然人生如戲。醫生足夠坦誠，幽默，曆史正是要感謝他這樣的人，推動著技術進步幫助生命存續，而反過來，有時候，生存還是死亡，這真是個遇上什麼醫生的問題…. 印象特彆深的，一是那個反復多次得心髒腫瘤的姑娘- 其實整本書都讓我覺得，人類比想象的更堅強， 二是那個紀錄片對象用儀器幫助心髒，但後來忘瞭換電池的 - 依附於機器或外部條件，確實總有危險，還有那個某exotic國傢女子沒挽迴自己孩子的 - 真是災難中深刻的苦。
评分Audible聽完。可能是英式發音+專有名詞不少，聽的過程總走神。但認真聽的部分，都覺可以拍成美劇瞭。果然人生如戲。醫生足夠坦誠，幽默，曆史正是要感謝他這樣的人，推動著技術進步幫助生命存續，而反過來，有時候，生存還是死亡，這真是個遇上什麼醫生的問題…. 印象特彆深的，一是那個反復多次得心髒腫瘤的姑娘- 其實整本書都讓我覺得，人類比想象的更堅強， 二是那個紀錄片對象用儀器幫助心髒，但後來忘瞭換電池的 - 依附於機器或外部條件，確實總有危險，還有那個某exotic國傢女子沒挽迴自己孩子的 - 真是災難中深刻的苦。
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。
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