Open Heart Audiobook by Stephen Westaby

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/33/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Open Heart Subtitle: A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table Author: Stephen Westaby Narrator: Gordon Griffin Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins Language: English Release date: 06-20-17 Publisher: Hachette Audio Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 27 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders Publisher's Summary: 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 away. When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during an open heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way the surgeons walked away. As he soon understood, this detachment was a crucial survival strategy. In a profession where failure is literally a heartbeat away and the cost of that failure is death, how else could he live with the consequences of his performance? In Open Heart, Westaby reflects on over 11,000 surgeries, showing us why the procedures have never become routine and will never be. With astonishing compassion and candor, Dr. Westaby recounts the fraught and alarming stories from his operating room: We meet a pulseless man who lives with an electric heart pump, an expecting mother who refuses surgery unless the doctors let her pregnancy reach full term, and a baby who gets a transplanted heart - only to die once it's in place. Open Heart offers unforgettable insight into how to push back death until nothing is left to do but to accept it. Critic Reviews: "Westaby is everything you would hope from a maverick surgical genius: authoritative, engaged, passionate and opinionated. His book, annoyingly well written for someone who has penned only medical papers and handbooks, reads like a thriller, except with rather more corpses." [The Times (UK)] "A cracking example of a thriving sub-genre of autobiography, the medical memoir. Anyone who enjoyed the 2014 bestseller Do No Harm by the brain surgeon Henry Marsh, a friend of Westaby's, will relish [this book], too.... Each story is gripping, written in a vivid, almost brutal way that matches the blood and gore of cardiac surgery." (Financial Times ) "The stakes could not be higher in this bloody, muscular and adrenaline-charged memoir from a pioneering heart surgeon...at points it made my own heart race dangerously." (Sunday Times)