Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care by David S. Jones (Author). Still the leading explanation for death worldwide, heart disease challenges researchers, clinicians, and sufferers alike. Each day, 1000's of sufferers and their medical doctors make selections about coronary angioplasty and bypass surgery. In Broken Hearts David S. Jones sheds light on the nature and quality of these decisions. He describes the debates over what causes heart assaults and the efforts to understand such unforeseen complications of cardiac surgery as despair, mental fog, and stroke.
Why do doctors and patients overestimate the effectiveness and underestimate the dangers of medical interventions, particularly when doing so may lead to the overuse of medical therapies? To answer this question, Jones explores the history of cardiology and cardiac surgery in the United States and probes the ambiguities and inconsistencies in medical resolution making. Primarily based on intensive opinions of medical literature and archives, this historical perspective on medical decision making and threat highlights personal, skilled, and community outcomes.
WHAT IS MY CONNECTION TO THIS BOOK -- "BROKEN HEARTS: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care" by David S. Jones, MD, PhD, the A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Tradition of Medication at Harvard Medical College? Particularly given the title I've chosen for this review, I ought to make clear that I have not been asked by anybody to jot down this review. Neither have I communicated with anybody about it, nor do I do know the author or anybody who knows him. I write this assessment solely as a result of I hope to steer as many individuals as possible to read this exceptionally well researched, superbly written, and ever so well timed and vital book.
And so that you may need some perspective concerning my own professional background to enable you to judge better my remarks herein, my own personal perspective is as follows. I am not a medical doctor. My skilled career has been in finance on Wall Avenue, which I left after 30 years to establish my very own monetary group in Russia. Throughout my life I've had an eager interest in medicine in general and in medical historical past in particular. Reality be recognized, though Wall Avenue was an ideal journey, I in all probability would have much more enjoyed turning into a doctor or surgeon. However, I have for a few years been concerned in different ways in national medical policy points, and I have served for long intervals on the medical trial evaluation boards by 4 of the most important and greatest tutorial medical facilities in the country, throughout which years I developed personal relationships with a few of the finest medical scientists within the world. I hope you'll subsequently conclude that my remarks are impartial and goal, and hopefully that they arrive from a background that gives me with a wee bit of familiarity concerning the subject of this book.
AN APT COMPARISON: A bit over two years ago I wrote an Amazon evaluation of Siddhartha Mukherjee's THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES: A BIOGRAPHY OF CANCER which did in reality go on to win the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction in 2011. At the time once I wrote that evaluate I believed "Emperor" was one of the best guide of its sort that I had ever read and that I would never see another related e-book of the same caliber. I was improper as a result of my considering BROKEN HEARTS is such a book. These two books are bookends on the top shelf of medical histories and widespread but critical medical tales, encompassing all the rest. EMPEROR is considerably deeper in the historic aspect, necessarily so, but not by much. BROKEN HEARTS are heavier on the divisional elements, necessarily so, and from a public policy and personal resolution making standpoint it is a bit more instantly useful, but not by much,. The research underpinning each is mattress rock solid. And they're each exceptionally properly organized and splendidly written. (Where do these physicians get off anyway, writing THAT well?) General, on a one to 10 scale, they are both elevens.
SO WHY READ IT? Beyond its basic excellence, why do you have to be interested in this common matter and this book? As a result of, statistically speaking, you the reader of this overview will probably be lucky if heart illness doesn't sometime involve you or your rapid family as a result of coronary heart illness remains the main reason behind demise worldwide. Hopefully heart disease won't ever be part of your life. But whether it is, I promise you that you can be grateful you read this e book as you and your loved ones and your doctor develop a master plan regarding your remedy and survival strategy. And I personally say that as one who has heart illness, and who has had a coronary heart attack, and who has read this book. My regret is that Dr. Jones didn't write this e-book years ago. It might have helped me tremendously in the time and it again may still, relying upon what destiny holds in store for me.
Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care
David S. Jones (Author)
336 pages
The Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (December 26, 2012)
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