- What's new?
- No Wait YA eBooks
- Popular titles
- Check these out!
- No wait, no problems
- See all ebooks collections
- Whispers in the Dark
- No wait, no problems
- What's new?
- Popular titles
- Check these out!
- See all audiobooks collections
1 of 2 copies available
In her memoir we come to know many of those patients whose lives Dr. Magliato has touched: a baby born with a hole in her heart, a ninety-four-year-old woman with heart failure, and a thirty-five-year-old movie producer who saves her own life by recognizing the symptoms of a heart attack. Along the way, Dr. Magliato sheds light on the rarely recognized symptoms of heart attack and cardiovascular disease—the number-one killer of women in America—and the specific measures that can be taken to prevent it.
By taking us deep into her life and those of her patients, Dr. Magliato acquaints us with the day-to-day realities of her life and work. We see her frantically juggle a full and happy family life as the wife of a liver transplant surgeon (they each have bedside tables cluttered with pagers and cell-phones) and the mother of two young boys. We also see the toll that being a female pioneer can take, as well as the rewards of such demanding work.
Dr. Magliato's powerful and moving memoir demonstrates her love, passion, and commitment toward both her work and her family and reveals that, at the end of a long day, it's the heart that matters most.
-
Creators
-
Publisher
-
Release date
April 19, 2010 -
Formats
-
OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781400196739
- File size: 244303 KB
- Duration: 08:28:57
-
-
Languages
- English
-
Reviews
-
Dr. Magliato's memoir allows listeners to meet a woman working in a man's world--the specialty of cardiac surgery. A memorable scene has Magliato massaging an open heart while riding a patient to the OR on a speeding gurney. She tells of her training, her romances, her experience of sexual harassment, and the effects of such a demanding profession on her family. The author's juxtaposition of medical jargon with condescending phrases like "little soldiers in the blood" sometimes seems oxymoronic. Maybe narrator Renée Raudman is taking the author's occasionally patronizing lead as she sounds like an an elementary school teacher talking to children. Her portrayal makes the Type A doctor sound like she is lacking in assertiveness. In her praise, Raudman pronounces most of the medical vocabulary with aplomb. J.A.H. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine -
Starred review from November 30, 2009
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, Magliati 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.
-