Cardiac Cowboys

Author : Gerald Imber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cardiac Cowboys written by Gerald Imber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardiac Cowboys is the dramatic story of five deeply flawed geniuses who together—and in competition with each other—invented open-heart surgery against all conventional medical wisdom and saved millions of lives. A decade after World War II, there was still no such thing as open-heart surgery, and yet half a million Americans were dying from heart disease every year. One in a hundred children would suffer and die from congenital heart disease as well, and doctors did little other than predict their deaths. After the first daring operation in 1954 and through the next three decades, five heroic surgeons braved the scorn of their peers, withstood fierce desperation, and faced possible death in order to devise procedures that would save overwhelming numbers of those doomed children and provide hope for a new life to all manner of heart-failing individuals. Devising and mastering heart transplants and bypass surgery, they invented artificial heart valves, the lifesaving pacemaker, and worked toward the holy grail of an artificial heart as their private and professional lives imploded. The story of the Cardiac Cowboys, their outsized personalities, and often self-destructive behavior is a saga more thrilling and exhilarating than fiction.

Author : Tessa Layne
Publisher : Shady Layne Media
ISBN 13 : 1948526034
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heart of a Bachelor (Cowboys of the Flint Hills) written by Tessa Layne and published by Shady Layne Media. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joe Nick Patoski
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316132713
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dallas Cowboys written by Joe Nick Patoski and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive, must-have account of the all-time players, coaches, locker rooms and boardrooms that made the Dallas Cowboys "America's Team." Since 1960, the Cowboys have never been just about football. From their ego-driven owner and high-profile players to their state-of-the-art stadium and iconic cheerleaders, the Cowboys have become a staple of both football and American culture since the beginning. For over 50 years, wherever the Cowboys play, there are people in the stands in all their glory: thousands of jerseys, hats, and pennants, all declaring the love and loyalty to one of the most influential teams in NFL history. Now, with thrilling insider looks and sweeping reveals of the ever-lasting time, place, and culture of the team, Joe Nick Patoski takes readers - both fans and rivals alike - deep into the captivating world of the Cowboys.

Author : Kathy Magliato, M.D.
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307951944
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heart Matters written by Kathy Magliato, M.D. and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, which inspired the NBC series Heart Beat, 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.

Author : Dylan Stafford
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557515475
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daddy Muscles written by Dylan Stafford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daddy Muscles is a first-time father's story of finding the love of his life, getting married, struggling with fertility, blessedly getting pregnant, and finally experiencing the new parent transitions of Year One. This is Dylan's first book. He is learning to be a dad and husband one day at a time. He holds a BA from Texas A & M University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He works as an admissions director at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and lives in Los Angeles with his wife Marisa and their son Jack.

Author : Kathy Magliato
Publisher : Crown Pub
ISBN 13 : 0767930266
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing Hearts written by Kathy Magliato and published by Crown Pub. This book was released on 2010 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring, surprising, and deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes life of a female heart surgeon.

Author : Robert Allen
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1633198847
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Things Oklahoma State Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die written by Robert Allen and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Cowboys fans have taken in a game or two at Boone Pickens Stadium and have cheered to the rhythm of hundreds of banging paddles. But only real fans know the full history of the Bedlam Series or can name all the football stars who went on to become Hall of Fame players. 100 Things Oklahoma State Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource for true fans of the Cowboys. Whether you're a diehard from the days of Barry Sanders and Thurman Thomas, or whether you're a more recent supporter, these are the 100 things every fan needs to know and do in their lifetime. Experienced sportswriter Robert Allen has collected every essential piece of Oklahoma State knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom.

Author : Kathie Bordelon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439627851
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book McNeese State University written by Kathie Bordelon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09-27 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrounded by live oaks and azaleas, McNeese State University has served Southwest Louisiana for over sixty years. Founded in 1939 by area businessmen and cattlemen, the university has grown and thrived side by side with the city of Lake Charles. Alumni, faculty, staff, and students alike take pride in the heritage of their evolving university, and the city embraces the school as a treasured landmark of the community. McNeese State University began as Lake Charles Junior College, a division of Louisiana State University. Just one year after its inception, the name was changed to John McNeese Junior College in honor of one of the areas foremost pioneer educators. In 1950 the name was changed to McNeese State College when four-year status was obtained, and university status was achieved in 1970. The campus has enjoyed phenomenal expansion, from its initial three buildings constructed on the site of the towns Poor Farm to the vibrant and sprawling 68 buildings and over 500 acres it consists of today. Scenes of student lifein classrooms, dormitories, club meetings, and at athletic eventsas well as memorable events throughout the course of the schools history are the focus of this visual journey. Students are pictured during lighter moments, enjoying the camaraderie of their classmates, but their serious side is also displayed during such trials as the disastrous hurricane that forced over 1,000 refugees to shelter on campus and the period during World War II when the campus became the headquarters of the Louisiana Maneuvers. Notable alumni of McNeese State include Dr. Cecil Cyrus Vaughn, a pioneer in cardiovascular medicine and artificial transplant surgery; Sheryl L. Abshire, one of the first five inductees into the National Teacher Hall of Fame and a Christa McAuliffe Fellow; and Andre Dubus, a critically acclaimed writer.

Author : Richard Wirick
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593763689
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kicking In written by Richard Wirick and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narcotic euphoria meets the demands of everyday life in Richard Wirick’s brilliant new collection of interlocking stories. Whether depicting a Valium-fogged lawyer representing a car painter who cooked a client in his kiln, or revealing a Gulf War orderly’s drift in and out of morphine dreams during an aerial Medevac surgery, Wirick’s stories are rich with the social contexts in which sedation’s acolytes emerge, come forward to flourish, and then often violently explode or fade away. With a finesse that invigorates and then jars the reader, Wirick maneuvers between narratives of shimmering hallucinations and ecstatic mood-peaks. But Kicking In is not just another drug book. A gut punch to the notion that the drug war stems from society’s fringe element, Wirick shines a light on the ways presumably democratic governments use depressants and stimulants to keep selected segments of the population marginalized and disenfranchised. The result is a masterful collection — a vividly terrifying yet startlingly prosaic consideration of the varieties of drug users’ experience with what Coleridge called “the milk of Paradise.”

Author : Jody Hedlund
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493433849
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart of a Cowboy (Colorado Cowboys Book #2) written by Jody Hedlund and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he agreed to guard her, he never bargained on having to guard his heart. Brilliant scientist Linnea Newberry is on the adventure of a lifetime, traveling the Santa Fe Trail with her grandfather, Dr. Howell, on a botanical expedition to Colorado Territory. She longs to be valued for her contributions and not seen as a helpless liability. But at every calamity she faces, her grandfather threatens to send her home. After watching his ma suffer and die in childbirth, Flynn McQuaid has sworn off women and marriage forever. Headed west to start a new life, he has his hands full not only taking care of his younger siblings but also delivering cattle to his older brother. He doesn't need more complications. When Flynn rescues Linnea from drowning during a river crossing, Dr. Howell promptly hires Flynn--unbeknownst to Linnea--to act as her bodyguard for the rest of the trip. As Flynn fights against the many dangers of the trail, he soon finds himself in the greatest danger of all--falling for a woman he's determined not to love.