Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table by Stephen Westaby

Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

Stephen Westaby

304 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction science emotional reflective fast-paced

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One of the world's leading heart surgeons shares the hard-won lessons of a life lived where failure and death are just a heartbeat awayWhen Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during an open heart surgery for the first time, he wa...

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