James S. Forrester
Forfatter af The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
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Through the book, we follow Dr. Forrester's own developments as a Doctor. At the beginning of the book, he recounts his experiences with a man that he called Willie the Phillie. He was unable to resurrect him due to the nature of cardiac surgery at the time.
Dr. Forrester's main thesis is that it took a Maverick or Rebel to change the Paradigm in Cardiac Treatments. Around the time of World War II, no surgeon would consider operating on the heart, but then a new generation of surgeons came to the forefront of medicine and changed how things were done with their ideas and methods.
I will admit that many of the stories brought a tear to my eye. No joke.
I will certainly keep this book around to read again.… (mere)