Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

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This is an incredible compilation. I'm not sure why, but with medicine, despite the fact that you lose more patients than you can save, it's those few survivors that give you the ability to persevere. They make it all matter. It doesn't matter how smart you are, you just need to be smart enough to care more than others, to be more passionate than others. It's tragic that a healthcare system is in the hands of political leaders who usually don't know enough about the preciousness of human life. Its not just the NHS, its a lot of countries' healthcare systems. Its tragic because lives are lost when support was needed. One cannot help but be captivated by the effort to remove a recurrent myxoma from a patient’s heart, for five times over ten years. Or a “last-gasp attempt” when everyone else had given up on a six-month old baby with a rare congenital anomaly. A headstrong attitude and the refusal to admit defeat is what differentiated Westaby from the average surgeon. This review makes the book sound moanier than it is. It just triggered my personal anger over the slow demoralisation of the NHS. In fact it's really quite uplifting in what we can achieve will the right will. The sacrifices made by medical staff are always appreciated.

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Death and a surgeons determined walk away from the table is truly a sight to see. In this case it’s British Cardiac Surgeon Stephen Westaby. Reading Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table takes us to the discovery of a little baby with a congenital hole in its heart and how “nascentes morimur” applies. Dr Westbury was obviously something of a marvel, and was masterful in his work. I think to do a profession such as that, you need to be of a certain character, and I know, that I certainly couldn't do it. Dr Westbury tells us of the many triumphs where his patients of all ages have gone on to live happy and fulfilling lives, but also the tragedies, where lives were lost way too soon. There was much jargon in here, and some of it went over my head, but it made for interesting reading.In a gene, the information for making a protein has two parts: the introduction, and the instructions for making the protein itself. Researchers call the introduction the promoter because of how it helps to start the process of building the protein. Please note that some of these medications carry serious risks. Others may make symptoms worse at first, or they may take several weeks to become effective. Doctors may have to try different dosages or combinations of medications to find the most effective plan. Families, caregivers, and doctors need to work together to ensure that a medication is working and that the medication plan is safe. Over 10 000 employees suffered a major injury because of a slip or trip at work last year and falls from height remain the most common cause of workplace fatality.

Fragile Lives by Stephen Westaby; Emergency Admissions by Kit

This film was made by the CITB with the assistance of the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and co-operation of Working Well Together (WWT) Uttam said, “I came to know from our neighbours that the government dispensary in our area has been changed to a Centre for Mothers and Children. One of our relatives delivered her baby safely there and did not have to pay for this service. So, I prayed, and I admitted my wife to the same centre. Midwife Bharti conducted the delivery, and we were not charged a single penny. Control: Work on or near fragile surfaces requires a combination of stagings, guard rails, fall restraint, fall arrest and safety nets slung beneath and close to the roof. Steve Westaby is a celebrated world-famous heart surgeon who is renowned for being the first surgeon in history to fit a patient with a new type of artificial heart. During his 35-year career as a surgeon he worked at several of the UK’s top hospitals and performed over 11,000 heart operations. He won the Ray C. Fish Award for Scientific Achievement (2004). In 2004 Steve Westaby was featured in the BBC documentary Your Life in Their Hands, which is a long-running series on the subject of surgery. In general, there are three options for the classroom placement of a child with Fragile X, based on that child’s specific abilities and needs:The details in Fragile Lives are extremely in depth, especially with regards to the surgeries and various diseases/injuries that are discussed in the book. While it was descriptive, it was not by any means difficult to follow. It was very interesting to read about the anatomy of the heart and the various pathologies Westaby writes about. One of those cases where I was in a funk and just going through OverDrive app, trying to find something different to listen to, that would lift me out of the fog and de-stress me. I read this pretty much in one sitting - an incredibly emotional, informative and really very addictive memoir here from Stephen Westaby, I now know more about the human heart than I ever could imagine that I would. Fragile X syndrome and its associated conditions are caused by changes (mutations) in the FMR1 gene found on the X chromosome. This mutation affects how the body makes a protein called FMRP. The mutation causes the body to make only a little bit or none of the protein, which can cause the symptoms of Fragile X.