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Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children's Lives
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 617.98092
EAN: 9780142004111
ISBN: 0142004111
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: March 30, 2004
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Release Date: March 30, 2004
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Editorial Review:
Described by one surgeon as soul-crushing, diamond-making stress, surgery on congenital heart defects is arguably the most difficult of all surgical specialties. Drawing back the hospital curtain for a unique and captivating look at the extraordinary skill and dangerous politics of critical surgery in a pediatric heart center, Michael Ruhlman focuses on the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic, where a team of medical specialistsled by idiosyncratic virtuoso Dr. Roger Meework on the edge of disaster on a daily basis. Walk on Water offers a rare and dramatic glimpse into a world where the health of innocent children and the hopes of white-knuckled families rest in the hands of all-too-human doctors.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - No divine powers, just attention to detail
Roger Mee, the surgeon profiled in this very well-researched and well-written book, would be the first to tell you that he possesses no divine powers. As he stresses, and author Ruhlman emphasizes, the craft of surgery is in attention to detail. An interesting contrast is drawn between Mee, who strikes the reader as very down-to-earth, and a brilliant but difficult intern, who (after this book was published) took his own life.
The book also contains excellent portraits of Mee's surgical ... Read More
Rating:  - shipment terrible, book excellent!
The book was absolutely excellent. Amazon and Woodys not so wonderful. Shipment was not shipped as promised and was not delivered as promised. After several emails, none returned by Amazon and one returned by Woodys the book arrived but at a much later date than agreed on. I won't order again from Amazon but I highly recommend reading this book! Absolutely Excellent!!
Rating:  - What it means to be the best
Imagine opening a newborn baby's chest and holding his plum-sized heart in your hands, confident that you can repair it and give the child a healthy life.
Meet Dr. Roger Mee, one of the world's top pediatric heart surgeons. Dr. Mee and his team at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio do just that, two or three times a day, five or six days a week. Author Michael Ruhlman spent a year as an embedded observer in this center of excellence, exploring an elite surgical specialty and the professionals who ... Read More
Rating: - amazing!
I recently became a pediatric cardiac intensive care nurse. I never really understood what it was like to be a family, or cardiac surgeon until reading this book. It is so amazing that someone could write such as informational insiring book, that has no health background. It makes me proud to be a nurse for this type of unit.
Rating: - A very focused look at one surgical team and congenital heart defects
I love to read medical non-fiction, and have read Danielle Ofri, Tilda Shalof, Atul Gawande, and about fifteen other authors who have written about their own journey as a medical student, resident, doctor, surgeon, or nurse. The time I spent as a teen in the hospital for a lung problem left me with a strong desire to understand how hospitals work and how people in the medical field think.
This book's strength and weakness are, strangely, the same thing. Most medical non-fiction that I have read ... Read More
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