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内容简介:
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.
作者简介:
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.
Foreword vii
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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原文摘录:
1.对于我，心脏外科是兴趣多于工作，喜悦多于辛苦，这是我拿手的活。
2.人类心脏最迷人的地方在于它的运动：它的节奏和效率。关于心脏运动的事实是惊人的：它每分钟博动超过60次，泵出5升血液。换算下来，也就是每小时搏动360次、每天86400次。每年它都要动超过3100次、80年里会博动25亿次。每一天，心脏的左右两都要往身体和肺部输送超过600升血液。
3.我们大多数人还知道，一些别的化学物质也能随呼吸出体外，特别是酒精，当它在血液中的含量超过肝脏的代谢能力时，我们就会呼出酒气。
4.身体里的每一个细胞都需要“生命之血”和氧气。缺了这两样身体组织就会以不同的速度死去，先是脑，最后是骨头。组织死亡的速度取决于每个细胞需要的氧气量。当心跳停止，脑和神经系统不到5分钟就会损坏，接着就是死亡。 (查看原文)
砂羽
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2019-11-27 21:33:14
—— 引自章节：前 言 1
手术室本是非常之地，既是解除病痛的地方，也是咀嚼苦难和孤独、遥望生死的地方。既是追求生命希望的地方，也是体验悲剧与悲情，思考生存意义的地方。还是烛照心灵，寻找信仰的地方。是人与神相遇的地方，是邂逅天使、对话上苍的地方。 (查看原文)
小貘
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2019-07-29 16:53:50
—— 引自第92页