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Open Heart : A Patient's Story of Life-Saving Medicine and Life-Giving Friendship

Open Heart : A Patient's Story of Life-Saving Medicine and Life-Giving Friendship

Open Heart : A Patient's Story of Life-Saving Medicine and Life-Giving
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Open Heart : A Patient's Story of Life-Saving Medicine and Life-Giving Friendship

de Neugeboren, Jay

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0618112111
ISBN 13
9780618112111
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Hardcover. Superficial marks and minor edgewear on ajcket. Contents in excellent condition. BW. Hardcover. Good/Good. Used.

Sinopsis

The shared qualities of friendship and the healing arts are the subject of this riveting memoir of one man's battle with heart disease. When, in February 1999, Jay Neugeboren discovered he needed emergency quintuple-bypass surgery, he embarked on a journey that just began on the operating table. At sixty, he was the picture of health, swimming a mile a day and playing tennis and basketball regularly -- often with teenagers. How could he possibly have heart disease? But as he soon came to know, the difference between being healthy and being sick, and between receiving good care and receiving misdiagnoses, can be alarmingly narrow. Fortunately, on his side were four lifelong friends, all prominent physicians -- a cardiologist, a psychologist, a neurologist, and one of the world's pioneers in AIDS medicine -- who helped him sift through the contradictory advice and the uneasiness one feels when life lies in the hands of strangers who are doctors. Guiding him through the system and relying on the strength of their childhood bonds, born from their Brooklyn upbringing, his friends in effect saved his life and opened his eyes to the ways -- good, bad, miraculous, and at times chilling -- in which medicine is practiced in the United States today. In this book, Jay sets out to understand how and why he nearly died, and to find out what we know -- and don't know -- about disease and illness in general. Joined by his friends, each of whom reflects on his own life as a physician, Jay examines the faith many of us place in the advanced technologies of modern medicine and how that often distracts us from the most fundamental health care tool -- an engaged physician who listens and cares. What he discovers, in part, is that the qualities that lie at the heart of friendship also define what we hope for, and are losing, in our doctors. At a time when our health care system continues to disappoint, Open Heart will resonate with every patient who has been shuttled between specialists, with every physician who has faced impossible time constraints and technologies, and with everyone who has helped a loved one through the maze of health care choices.Clear, compelling, comic, and inspiring, Open Heart is a story that will open eyes and hearts -- a memoir every patient, doctor, and care provider will want to read.

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Librería
PsychoBabel & Skoob Books GB (GB)
Inventario del vendedor #
284005
Título
Open Heart : A Patient's Story of Life-Saving Medicine and Life-Giving Friendship
Autor
Neugeboren, Jay
Formato/Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Estado del libro
Usado - Bien
Estado de la sobrecubierta
Good
ISBN 10
0618112111
ISBN 13
9780618112111
Editorial
Houghton Mifflin
Lugar de publicación
Boston
Fecha de publicación
2003

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