The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center

by Charles R. Morris
The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center  
published October 29th 2007 by W. W. Norton
binding Hardcover
isbn 0393065626   (isbn13: 9780393065626)
pages 256
description An over-the-shoulder look at a major heart surgery center, with gripping accounts from the OR to the boardroom.

Americans now spend mo...more
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10-11-07



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Ginnie
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I was surprised by how much I liked this book. It had seemed from the title that this would be just another in the growing cottage-industry of inside this or that medical specialty by one of its practitioners. Not so. This is the drama of surgery conveyed by an eyewitness with the smarts of an American business watcher.

Morris spent a year at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital watching coronary bypass surgeries, transplants, valve replacements and congenital-defect corrections, perf...more
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Terri Ann
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The Surgeons provides a fine basic understanding for the layperson of the workings of an academic surgical practice. Morris lived in the Columbia cardiothoracic division for 6 months, observing, surgery, meetings, attendings, residents, practice, and billing. I found the story quite compelling and learned some interesting information about certain surgeries. It helps be to be better at my job to more deeply understand the motivations and actions of surgeons. I really appreciated the stories Morr...more
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recommends it for: all med students esp. at columbia
This was a really fun read for me because it's about Columbia-Presbyterians cardiothoracic surgery department! I shadowed Dr. Q in an ASD repair on a 2 mo. old, I've gone on transplant runs with some of the other docs, and if my NIH grant had come through I would have done a summer internship with Dr. Hsu. It gave me a good, basic, easy refresher on some important public health issues and had a nice personal twist that made it even more interesting.
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written by someone who knows nothing about medicine, it offers a great perspective for anyone who wants to know how cool cardiothoracic surgery is, how medicine works at a HUGE institution
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