Wilbur's Heart: A Martin Ackerman Medical Thriller, Book 2

Dr. Martin Ackerman is back. This time he’s started Neuro-Tek, a company developing advanced deep brain stimulation technologies to treat motion disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.When Martin gets a call from Dr. Sharon Hildebrand, chief of heart transplant surgery at Boston General Hospital, things take an unexpected turn. She’s hoping Martin will supply her with pigs that have been genetically modified so their hearts will be suitable for transplant into humans.Martin is initially skeptical but learns from Sharon that pig hearts may be the best way to alleviate the significant shortage of donor hearts from humans. Martin is engaged to be married, and his life is good. The last thing he needs is a bizarre adventure into the strange new world of transplanting organs from pigs to humans.Martin agrees to help Dr. Hildebrand, enlisting the help of his old friends, Stan Lassiter and Wally Jacobson.It seems simple, raising pigs so their hearts can be transplanted into humans with end-stage heart failure.What could go wrong? They’re just pigs, right?📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4cVl3OX