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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Forrester, James, 1937- author.     Subjects     Cardiology -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Forrester, James, 1937- author.       by title:      The heart healers [e...         MARC Display

The heart healers [electronic resource] : the misfits, mavericks, and rebels who created the greatest medical breakthrough of our lives / by James Forrester, M.D. by Forrester, James, 1937- author. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015. Subjects Cardiology -- History. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=D06A6DD1-1602-4F9D-A9A4-16943D2A877C This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d06a6dd1-1602-4f9d-a9a4-16943d2a877c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{D06A6DD1-1602-4F9D-A9A4-16943D2A877C}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781466862555 (electronic bk.) 1466862556 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Requests:  0 Summary:  "At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiologist Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease was killing millions and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier. On Sept. 7, 1895, Ludwig Rehn successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time. Once it was deemed possible to perform surgery on the heart, others followed. In 1929, Dr. Werner Forssman inserted a cardiac catheter in his own arm and forced the x-ray technician on duty to take a photo as he successfully threaded it down the vein into his own heart...and lived. On June 6, 1944 - D-Day - another momentous event occurred far from the Normandy beaches: Dr. Dwight Harken sutured the shrapnel-injured heart of a young soldier, saved his life and the term "cardiac surgeon" was born. Dr. Forrester tells the story of these rebels and the risks they took with their own lives and the lives of others to heal the most elemental of human organs - the heart. The result is a compelling chronicle of a disease and its cure, a disease that is still with us, but one that is slowly being worn away by "The Heart Healers""--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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