The Angina Monologues: Stories of Surgery for Broken Hearts

Samer Nashef

The Angina Monologues: Stories of Surgery for Broken Hearts
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Country
Australia
Published
4 June 2019
Pages
288
ISBN
9781925713817

The Angina Monologues: Stories of Surgery for Broken Hearts

Samer Nashef

The Angina Monologues speeds from the transporting of a donor’s heart up the motorway hard shoulder, to cautionary stories of excessive intervention gone awry in US hospitals, to a traumatic trip to bring advanced cardiac surgery to the Palestinian West Bank. Nashef tells heart-stopping stories of transplants, coronary artery bypasses, aorta repair, and cardiac arrest. He also delivers humane advice about medical realities rarely observed: the futility of obsessing over diet, the necessity of calculating risks, the role of decision making, the resilience of doctor and patient alike, and the threadbare brilliance of the NHS.

Nashef is a magnificently warm and likeable doctor and writer; and he has the best imaginable bedside manner.

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