Full name: Walk on Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit

Author: Michael Ruhlman Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780142004111 0142004111

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 specialists led by idiosyncratic virtuoso Dr. Roger Mee work 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. Similar books: The Woman Who Swallowed a Toothbrush by Rob Myers Emergency! by Mark Brown Paramedic by Peter Canning The Family That Couldn't Sleep by D. T. Max Every Patient Tells a Story by Lisa Sanders Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives by Pamela Grim Hot Lights, Cold Steel by Michael J. Collins Body of Work by Christine Montross Another Day in the Frontal Lobe by Katrina Firlik Five Patients by Michael Crichton Better by Atul Gawande Complications by Atul Gawande How We Do Harm by Otis Webb Brawley Under the Knife by Arnold van de Laar Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery Ratio by Michael Ruhlman Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche Teaming with Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels