Description: Heart Surgeon Stephen Westabbey, the adrenaline-pumping book of sharp, humorous, candid accounts of the daily life of a doctor. Some of the deepest love for life must take on an unforgiving face. "You ask me if I ever see this patient on stage as a living human being? Does such a question matter? This victim didn't need an anxious, empathic surgeon; she needed a competent specialist. Like a relentless killer hunter, a detective, he was in hot pursuit of death! He has used chisels and hammers to open the chests of girls who have been stabbed, with police officers fainting; he has saved Oxford students from death attempts, with a sharp knife lodged in the young man's chest, his first case as chief physician; he has saved pregnant women from gunshot wounds during a visiting professorship in Brazil, delivering a new baby and repairing a gunshot wound in just four minutes! Even, he would wear the same surgical gown and fight for 24 hours in blood...
