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Open Hearts - Stories of the Surgery That Changes Children's Lives (Hardcover)
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Open Hearts - Stories of the Surgery That Changes Children's Lives (Hardcover)
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Nearly all of us will, at some point, know someone who was born
with a heart defect. But, as the surgical scars so often remain
hidden, we just might not realise it.; Powerfully telling of the
patients and their experiences, Open Hearts is a remarkable medical
story: we are often so focused on 'extraordinary' people and their
achievements, we forget just how incredible the 'ordinary'
achievements of living can be.; Until the 1960s 'blue babies' were
a striking sight in our streets. Suffering from congenital heart
disease offered a bleak outlook to young patients and a
heartbreaking experience for parents. Very few would make it to
adulthood; now, in the West at least, most have a much higher
chance of survival.; In Open Hearts Kate Bull, formerly a
cardiologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, tells not just of the
development of heart surgery in children, but of the patients, past
and present, whose lives have been transformed. Besides the
technology, the sociology of medicine has changed substantially
since the 1950s - think of the atmosphere of children's wards.Other
things have barely changed - consider the dread of kissing your
child goodbye at the door of an operating theatre in any era. ;
Children's heart surgery is often seen as a medical triumph; but,
for all the successful operations completed, thousands of
pioneering patients have gone before, perhaps facing their own
uncertain futures. Today, we place great hope in the power of
science. Many lives have been saved; but, sometimes, we ask
medicine to do more than it can.; By turns frightening,
heart-wrenching and inspiring, Open Hearts is a powerful story of
medical progress, hope and survival.
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