Heart operations today are quite common and relatively low-risk,
but in the beginning it was just the opposite. Cardiac operations
were reserved for desperately ill patients. The author documents
this dramatic transition with profiles of 38 surgeons who were
active between 1940 and 1985.
The profiles are edited transcripts of interviews videotaped
between 1996 and 2004. They tell of the development of new
techniques such as the "blue baby operation," the first heart-lung
machine, the first artificial heart valve, and the first coronary
bypass operation. They also tell the unusual life stories of the
surgeons and allude to professional and institutional rivalries. A
particularly valuable part of the book is the author's brief
history of cardiac surgery, designed to orient the reader for
reading the profiles that follow.
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