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- catalog abstract ""G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story: how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt Lillehei, made medical history by becoming the first doctors to operate deep inside the human heart." "Miller tells the story of Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, who, along with colleagues at University Hospital in Minneapolis and a small band of pioneers elsewhere, accomplished what many experts considered to be an impossible feat: he opened the heart, repaired fatal defects, and made the miraculous routine." "Miller draws on archival research and exclusive interviews with Lillehei and legendary pioneers such as Michael DeBakey and Christiaan Barnard, taking readers into the lives of these doctors and their patients as they progress toward their landmark achievement. Beginning in the 1950s with highly unorthodox operations simultaneously on two people - experiments that in today's political climate might not be possible - Lillehei and his colleagues took risks that resulted in rivers of blood and cost the lives of several early patients. But ultimately this is a story of triumph: King of Hearts is a true life-and-death drama about the surgeons who risked their reputations, and the patients who risked their lives, to revolutionize health care."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11531692.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story: how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt Lillehei, made medical history by becoming the first doctors to operate deep inside the human heart." "Miller tells the story of Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, who, along with colleagues at University Hospital in Minneapolis and a small band of pioneers elsewhere, accomplished what many experts considered to be an impossible feat: he opened the heart, repaired fatal defects, and made the miraculous routine." "Miller draws on archival research and exclusive interviews with Lillehei and legendary pioneers such as Michael DeBakey and Christiaan Barnard, taking readers into the lives of these doctors and their patients as they progress toward their landmark achievement. Beginning in the 1950s with highly unorthodox operations simultaneously on two people - experiments that in today's political climate might not be possible - Lillehei and his colleagues took risks that resulted in rivers of blood and cost the lives of several early patients. But ultimately this is a story of triumph: King of Hearts is a true life-and-death drama about the surgeons who risked their reputations, and the patients who risked their lives, to revolutionize health care."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-288) and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 302 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "King of hearts.".
- catalog identifier "0812930037".
- catalog isFormatOf "King of hearts.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Times Books,".
- catalog relation "King of hearts.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "2000 C-526".
- catalog subject "617.412/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Cardiac Surgical Procedures United States History.".
- catalog subject "Cardiac Surgical Procedures history".
- catalog subject "Heart Surgery United States History.".
- catalog subject "Lillehei, C. Walton, 1918-".
- catalog subject "RD598 .M523 2000".
- catalog subject "Surgeons United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Thoracic Surgery United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Thoracic Surgery".
- catalog subject "WZ 100 L728M 2000".
- catalog title "King of hearts : the true story of the maverick who pioneered open-heart surgery / G. Wayne Miller.".
- catalog type "Biography".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".