The Open Heart Club: A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery
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This history of the heart and cardiac medicine--as told by a writer with a congenital heart defect--ponders issues of mortality, empathy, and the things that make us human. Born in 1966 with a congenital heart defect known as the tetralogy of Fallot, Gabriel Brownstein entered the world just as doctors were learning to operate on conditions like his. He received a life-saving surgery at five years old, and since then has ridden wave...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1610399498
ISBN13:9781610399494
Release Date:October 2019
Publisher:PublicAffairs
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.3" x 9.6"
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