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- Sales Rank: #444361 in Books
- Published on: 2010-08-31
- Released on: 2010-08-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.70" h x 6.20" w x 9.40" l, 1.65 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 448 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Calling his book an "oral history," heart surgeon and author Cooper credits a handful of pioneers who have transformed heart surgery as we know it. From Robert Gross and Clarence Crafoord, founders of modern cardiovascular surgery, to the African-American operating room technician Vivien Thomas, a dropout who helped develop a lifesaving operation for oxygen-starved babies, the innovations chronicled here reveal the extraordinary spirits of more than two dozen exceptional men. Cooper, utilizing lengthy interviews with many of the doctors, recounts the breakthroughs with pride, awe, and just the right amount of "dish," such as when he tells of Floyd John Lewis, a "bohemian" doctor who performed the first open heart operation only to later walk away from medicine to become a writer and painter. C. Walton Lillehei, we're told, was a bold open heart surgeon but possessed such rotten financial skills that he nearly sank his career. In short, these pioneers are simultaneously average and exceptional and, in Cooper's careful hands, always accessible. (Oct.)
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From Booklist
In this well-researched history of heart transplants, surgeon Cooper shares his interviews with more than 60 sources, including his former colleague, Christiaan Bernard, who performed the first human heart transplant. Cooper combines medical facts with personal facts about himself and the cowboys of the field, letting readers in on what these larger-than-life doctors did in and out of the operating room. Much of Cooper’s first-person account is tabloid worthy. For example, he tells about the tax-evasion trial of Clarence Walton Lillehei, who designed prosthetic valves and an external, battery-powered pacemaker. The prosecution called 164 witnesses who talked about how the surgeon claimed parties, gifts to girlfriends, and a call girl as deductible expenses. Spicy tales give way in some sections to overly technical passages, but overall this is a fascinating account of the colorful men who pioneered what is now a common surgical procedure. --Karen Springen
About the Author
David K.C. Cooper, MD, PhD, FRCS, is a heart transplant surgeon and researcher. He completed his medical education at the University of London, then trained in general surgery and heart surgery in the U.K. with periods of research at Harvard, Cambridge, and London. In the late 1970s, he was a member of the team that performed the first successful series of heart transplants in the U.K. In 1980, Dr. Cooper was appointed to the faculty of the University of Cape Town Medical School in South Africa, where he had responsibility for the heart transplant program under Prof. Christiaan Barnard. In 1987 he moved to Oklahoma City, where he continued his work in heart transplantation and research, and later accepted a research appointment at Harvard Medical School. During this time, he began meeting the pioneer surgeons who make up the personalities profiled in his book, Open Heart. Dr. Cooper has published almost 500 medical and scientific papers and chapters, and has edited or co-edited six major textbooks. He holds three doctorate degrees, and is a fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the American College of Surgeons. He is now director of a research group at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he also is a professor of surgery.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
An Exciting Read
By Joe VanderVeer, Jr,, M.D.
This is a splendid volume, partly because it's written from a distinct vantage point: David Cooper a cardiac surgeon. It's an enjoyable read that gives a spicy account of the evolution of the specialty of cardiac surgeon by a man who was personally acquainted with many of the major players in this exciting saga.
It's organized chronologically. Chapter one leads off with an 1896 quote from New York physician B. F. Sher¬man, "The road to the heart is only 2 or 3 cm in a direct line, but it has taken 2400 years to travel it." In thirteen more chapters Cooper traces the meandering path of the specialty by con¬centrating on the lives and accomplishments of the 33 men and one woman (Helen Taussig) who contributed to the development of this ever-expanding field.
Cooper writes for a mixed audience - laymen and those trained scientifically, including physicians - and his text will appeal to both. Having almost become a cardiac surgeon myself, I was familiar with the facts of many of the milestones of the field. Cooper presents them well, including closure of a patent ductus (by Robert Gross in Boston in 1938); development of the heart lung machine (by John Gibbon, Jr. in 1953); the use of hypothermia (both the total body concept of Wilfred Bigelow in 1952 and the 1957 cardiac saline slush method of Norman Shumway); the first cardiac transplant (by Christian Barnard in 1967) and the implanting of the first artificial heart (by Denton Cooley in 1969). These and many other accounts of significant historical events are related in a readable, limpid style, a pleasant blend of biography and scientific synopsis.
But there is an additional, sparkling facet to Cooper's writing that enhances its appeal: he is a masterful interviewer. Over a period of twenty years, Cooper conversed with most of the men who were major players in this saga, or spoke with those who had trained under them. His account is full of interesting and amusing anecdotes. He includes three dozen black-and-white photographs of the various pioneers, and he supplements the snapshots with memorable verbal sketches of them, gleaned from the interviews.
Cooper asked most of those he interviewed several revealing questions. Did they get the recognition they deserved? (Most felt they had.) How did these early pioneers - whose very sick patients often did not survive - deal with death when many of their patients died as new techniques were being perfected? Belying the myth of the heartless, calloused surgeon, most experienced a dark night of the soul if they lost patients. But they persevered, and mortality rates fell as they gained ex¬perience. Cooper comments (pg 406): "Making errors of judgment, facing death on the operating table and agonizing over whether you have performed a surgical procedure adequately can all be very painful forms of `hell' to the surgeon. The lesson that heart surgeons quickly learn is, as Winston Churchill said, `If you are going through hell, keep going.' Heart surgery is not a career for someone who lacks courage, persistence, and tenacity."
The text is also pep¬pered with spicy, revealing comments. For example: Surgeon Norm Shumway attended a banquet celebrating the career of Minneapolis surgeon C. Walton Lillehei - who early on persevered in spite of the death of many of his sick patients, and whose high-flying and chaotic life style led to an investigation by the IRS. Shumway likened Lillehei to Al Capone, saying: "He killed a lot or people, but the government could only get him on unpaid taxes."
The 430 page text is supplemented by a selected bibliography and a comprehensive index. Those who read Open Heart will come away with a new appreciation of the sterling accomplishments and varied personalities of those who developed and made commonplace this once verboten branch of surgery. At $19.43 from Amazon, it's worth buying.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Marvelous
By Ruth Cohen, M.D.
This book is marvelous, an insider's view by a cardiothoracic surgeon of the geniuses who created and developed his field. There are interviews with the notables, biographic sketches and commentaries on these extraordinary doctors. The demigods were also human. The pictures and graphics explain it all for even the layman. You learn about courage, failings and the right stuff.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Open Heart: The Radical Surgeons who Revolutionized Medicine
By Winston Wicomb
It is certainly a book that is worth reading and I found the contents extremely engaging even although I am not a physician. It is an interesting account of innovative men that pioneered the field of heart surgery and transposed me into the depths of a discipline outside of my own. The book is easily readable by the layman, very entertaining and I highly recommend 'the radical surgeon' by David Cooper.
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