The open heart
by Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich Amosov
248 pages· 1967
About
The author's journal of two days and nights in his role as a heart surgeon. He relates both his failure to save a young girl and his remarkable success in saving a notable scientist. Throughout, his patients are not just names on case files, they are people. The Open Heart provides a picture of the life of a distinguished Russian scientist and physician. His views on American and Soviet medicine, on politics, on love-- are all shared in a frank and candid style.
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