By G. Wayne Miller
ISBN-10: 0609807242
ISBN-13: 9780609807248
ISBN-10: 0812930037
ISBN-13: 9780812930030
ISBN-10: 147088982X
ISBN-13: 9781470889821
This is the tale of the health professional many name the daddy of open-heart surgical procedure, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, who, besides colleagues at collage health facility in Minneapolis and a small band of pioneers somewhere else, comprehensive what many specialists thought of to be an very unlikely feat: He opened the guts, repaired deadly defects, and made the staggering routine.
Acclaimed writer G. Wayne Miller attracts on archival learn and unique interviews with Lillehei and mythical pioneers equivalent to Michael DeBakey and Christiaan Barnard, taking readers into the lives of those medical professionals and their sufferers as they growth towards their landmark fulfillment. within the culture of works through Richard Rhodes and Tracy Kidder, King of Hearts tells the tale of a major and gripping piece of forgotten technological know-how history.
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King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery by G. Wayne Miller
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