打开一颗心：一位心外科医生手术台前的生死故事

Open Heart: A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

[媒体推荐/Reviews]

"[A] dazzling memoir." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"[Westaby's] writing is bluff, workmanlike and thrilling... a frank and absorbing memoir by a man who has done about as much direct good to his fellow human beings as it is possible to do in one lifetime." --The Times, Book of the Week

"A cracking example of a thriving sub-genre of autobiography, the medical memoir. Anyone who enjoyed the 2014 bestseller Do No Harm by the brain surgeon Henry Marsh, a friend of Westaby's, will relish [this book], too.... Each story is gripping, written in a vivid, almost brutal way that matches the blood and gore of cardiac surgery." --Financial Times

[基本信息/Product Details]

Publisher : Hachette USA; 1st edition (20 Jun. 2017)

Language : English

Hardcover : 304 pages

ISBN-10 : 046509483X

ISBN-13 : 978-0465094837

Dimensions : 16.13 x 3.68 x 24.26 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

[内容简介/Book Description]

“我经手过12000颗心脏。”作者在心外科暨胸外科从业数十年，手术成绩卓著。本书即汇集了作者经历的一些经典案例（多数发生在1970年代至2000年代之间），也剖白了作者的心路历程。

工薪家庭的穷小子，被幼年时的医学纪录片鼓舞，也被亲人的离世刺痛，终于将自己历练成一名杰出的心外科医生。他为面试的成功而激动地徜徉在伦敦河岸街头，为先天心脏病或气道重度灼伤的小儿开胸，为病人和家属的焦灼与渴望而奋战，为对抗次日手术的焦虑而深入沙特沙漠欣赏夜空，为尽力修补而果断切削垂危的心脏，为救命而与医务主任对抗、“擅自”为病人安装人工的“电池”心，在命悬一线的攻坚手术面前还能讲出冷笑话……一位艺业精湛、傲气十足又敬畏生命的外科医生形象跃然纸上。那些十几年甚至几十年前就存在的顶尖外科技术也令读者叹为观止。

在展现心胸外科手术的神乎其技之余，作者也借病症、病患和自己的业务游历，揭示了人世百态，介绍了世界各地的风物文化，展现了一名外科医生眼中所见的悲伤与爱，以及对医疗制度、伦理和医学教育的反思，令读者收获很多感触和启发，是一部兼具叙事魅力、医学知识和奇迹的佳作。

When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way the surgeons walked away. As he soon understood, this detachment is a crucial survival strategy in a profession where death is only a heartbeat away. In Open Heart, Westaby reflects on over 11,000 surgeries, showing us why the procedures have never become routine and will never be. With astonishing compassion, he recounts harrowing and sometimes hopeful stories from his operating room: we meet a pulseless man who lives with an electric heart pump, an expecting mother who refuses surgery unless the doctors let her pregnancy reach full term, and a baby who gets a heart transplant-only to die once it's in place.

For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Open Heart offers a soul-baring account of a life spent in constant confrontation with death.

[作者简介/Author]

斯蒂芬·韦斯塔比（Stephen Westaby，1948— ），英国牛津约翰·拉德克利夫医院主任医生及教授，世界一流的心外科手术专家和人工心脏专家。一生参与过1万多台心外科手术，其中多有极为精彩、惊险甚至开创性的术式。

Stephen Westaby is a pioneer in artificial heart technology and serves as Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. He lives in Oxford, UK.