TY  - BOOK
AU  - Westaby,Stephen
TI  - Fragile lives: a heart surgeon's stories of life and death on the operating table 
SN  - 9780008196769 (hbk.) :
AV  - RD27.35 
U1  - 617.092 WES 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Westaby, Stephen
KW  - Heart
KW  - Surgery
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Heart surgeons
KW  - Health and Fitness
KW  - eflch
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
N2  - 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
ER  -