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Open Heart: A Patient's Story of Life-Saving Medicine and Life-Giving Friendship Capa dura - 2003
por Jay Neugeboren
Resumo
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.
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.
Primeira linha
ON AN UNSEASONABLY MILD, sunny afternoon in early February 1999, I drive down from my home in Northampton, Massachusetts, to Guilford, Connecticut, 120 miles away, to spend an evening with my friend Jerry Friedland and his wife, Gail.
Detalhes
- Título Open Heart: A Patient's Story of Life-Saving Medicine and Life-Giving Friendship
- Autor Jay Neugeboren
- Encadernação Capa dura
- Edição 1st Printing
- Páginas 371
- Volumes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Houghton Mifflin, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Data de publicação August 6, 2003
- ISBN 9780618112111 / 0618112111
- Peso 1.2 libras (0.54 kg)
- Dimensão 8.54 x 5.79 x 1.21 in. (21.69 x 14.71 x 3.07 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Coronary artery bypass - Patients - United, Neugeboren, Jay - Health
- Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 2002191298
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Revisões da mídia
"A skillful blending of personal experience and public concerns." Kirkus Reviews
"This memoir...is strongest as a testimonial to friendship." Boston Globe
"In this inspiring book, Neugeboren thoughtfully recounts his emerency bypass sugery and ruminates on the state of doctor-patient relationships..." Ploughshares
"This memoir...is strongest as a testimonial to friendship." Boston Globe
"In this inspiring book, Neugeboren thoughtfully recounts his emerency bypass sugery and ruminates on the state of doctor-patient relationships..." Ploughshares
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