An inspiring, surprising, sometimes shocking, and ultimately deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes, high-pressured life of a female heart surgeon.
Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of the few female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group--those surgeons specially trained to perform heart transplants. Heart Matters is the story of the making of a surgeon who is also a wife and mother. In this powerful and moving memoir, Dr. Magliato takes us into her highly demanding, physically intense, male-dominated world and shows us how she masterfully works to save patients' lives every day, while also maintaining balance at home. Heart Matters is also a wake-up call to all women about their number one killer - heart disease - and explains how to avoid becoming a victim. Magliato offers a vivid behind-the-scenes view of what really goes on in an operating room and the real-life drama that occurs there. She shows the passion and commitment between patient and doctor, revealing that, at the end of a long day, it's our hearts that matter most."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Starred Review. In her amazing memoir, Magliato belies the myth of surgeons as distant, cocky, robotic--and male. Yet she also bluntly explains why, as one of the world's very few female heart surgeons, she once relied on the psychological "full metal jacket." "Sometimes, it was the only thing holding me together," she says of the distance she needed during an insanely grueling training in cardiac surgery. Magliato describes the bloody trenches of the operating theater; the vulnerable patients who are saved or who die; and the juggling of a demanding career with her role as wife and mother. However, it's the doctor's tender heart that makes her far more than a "healing robot." Recounting one patient's dying moments, Magliato acknowledges that she was unable to help the woman live but is proud that, at the least, "I gave her... a beautiful exit from this world. When it's my time to go, that's how I want to die. In the arms of my son." Look for sobering statistics on women and heart disease, and an inspiring example of living and loving life to the fullest. (Jan.)
--Publishers Weekly
Kathy E. Magliato, MD, is currently the director of women's cardiac services at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. She lives in Pacific Palisades with her husband and their two children.
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