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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 617.092 EAN: 9780393065626 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0393065626 Label: W. W. Norton Manufacturer: W. W. Norton Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: October 29, 2007 Publisher: W. W. Norton Studio: W. W. Norton Editorial Review: Product Description: An over-the-shoulder look at a major heart surgery center, with gripping accounts from the OR to the boardroom. Americans now spend more money on hearts than on new passenger cars. To understand this remarkable trend, Charles R. Morris "embedded" himself with a surgical team at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Morris witnessed sophisticated operations and observed the tense meetings where surgeons relentlessly criticize their own performance. In thrilling detail, Morris recounts a late-night against-the-clock "harvest run" to secure a precious transplantable organ; the heart-breaking story of a child's failed transplant; a trainee surgeon's brutal daily regimen; and much more. Along the way, Morris documents the fifty years of research and hundreds of millions of dollars that have been expended on creating a reliable mechanical heart, and he steps back to reflect on how doctors think and how they judge each other, what is really driving health care costs, and the future of health care policy in America. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - As a heart patient, I was fascinated!This is a fascinating book, whether one is a heart patient oneself or not. The hospital in discussion is Columbia-Presbyterian in New York. Morris "embedded" himself there, staying in the cardiac area, attending surgeries sitting in the back near the nurses, attended staff meetings, all that stuff. He opens with a little history of heart surgery and an typical patient. Incidentally, although this is written for a popular audience, he does assume some slight knowledge on the part of the reader - for ... Read More Rating:  - Well written ER drama and primer on the business of surgery"The Surgeons" is an interesting read for the ER-Grey's Anatomy drama crowd, but its real value is in the clearheaded analysis of the business model of surgery, drugs, and product placement. A star off for Morris' incomplete but interesting examination of reforming health care economics leaves this at 4 stars. As one of the few financial writers with a finance background, reformed investment banker-turned-writer Charles R. Morris tends to "get it" in fundamentally understanding both classic ... Read More Rating: - "The Surgeons" from a patient's perspective With amazing detail, "The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center" provides a view of many behind-the-scene challenges of modern cardiac surgery. I spent four days as a patient in the cardiac unit at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital while author Charles Morris shadowed surgeons "unrestricted" in the same unit for an entire year. It is quite fascinating to read what doctors are thinking, feeling and doing while life is literally in their hands. Cardiac surgery is one of the few ... Read More Rating:  - My heart be still ... AND healthy!!!!Author Charles Morris offers insightful profiles of top cardiac surgeons at a New York area medical center. One gets a sense of the incredible training and sacrifice that goes into being one of these medical virtuosos, who literally hold the lives of patients in their skilled hands. Morris also provides an interesting discussion of health care economics, making predictions on how America may attempt to address the healthcare crisis what with the aging of the Baby Boomer generation. Read More Rating: - The Surgeons is a fascinating read!The Surgeons is an intriguing glimpse into the lives and work of the heart surgeons at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, one of the world's top cardiac surgery centers. Author Charles Morris provides an intimate look at the work of these virtuosos who hold lives in their hands every day. We get to know such artisans as Craig Smith, head of cardiothoracic surgery, who is well-known for doing the quadruple bypass on former President Bill Clinton; Eric Rose, a cardiothoracic surgeon and chairman ... Read More |
