Smith, Craig R.
Summary: "The celebrated cardio-thoracic surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, writes an elegant story of life in the land of illness and daily miracles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, CRAIG R. SMIJamieson, Stuart
Summary: Taut, elegantly written, and ever-attentive to the patients for whom he was the last best chance, Close to the Sun is an adventurous, riveting account based on the experience of over 40,000 heart surgeries, where everything was on the line every moment in the O.R. Stuart Jamieson has lived two lives. One began in heat and dust. Born to British ex-pats in colonial Africa, Jamieson was sent at...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 JAMIESON, STUART JAMMorris, Charles R.
Contents: Fixing Mr. Goldfarb -- A very short history of heart surgery -- Artisans at work -- The most precious resource -- Erika's story -- School for heart surgeons -- The measurement problem -- The future of heart surgery -- Money -- Policy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.092 MORSwartz, Mimi
Summary: "In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two-time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz takes readers behind the scenes of perhaps the greatest medical and technological quest of our time, as she follows pioneering heart surgeon O.H. "Bud" Frazier and his partner, Dr. Billy Cohn, in Frazier's lifelong effort to develop, perfect, and successfully implant an artificial heart in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRAZIER, O. HOWARD SWASummary: Hugh Knight is a renowned heart surgeon in Sydney, who believes he can live outside the rules. But after an incident involving drugs and alcohol, he is banned from surgery. Forced to work as a local doctor, Hugh retreats to rural Wyhope, his rarely visited hometown, which, he assumes, will be distraction-free. He couldn't be more wrong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HEASummary: Hugh Knight is a renowned heart surgeon in Sydney, who believes he can live outside the rules. But after an incident involving drugs and alcohol, he is banned from surgery. Forced to work as a local doctor, Hugh retreats to rural Wyhope, his rarely visited hometown, which, he assumes, will be distraction-free. He couldn't be more wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HEASummary: As the hit Australian dramedy returns, hotshot surgeon Hugh Knight continues to serve out his probation in his rural hometown, while his family faces struggles that could bring them closer together, or tear them apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn TV 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HEASummary: Smart but selfish heart surgeon Hugh Knight and his dysfunctional family face their biggest challenges yet in the final season of the hit Australian dramedy. After a year of fire, floods, and asbestos, Whyhope Hospital has been forced to shut down and temporarily relocate to a veterinary clinic, plunging Hugh's hometown into turmoil. Ambitious administrator Sharna arrives to provide aid but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HEASummary: After serving out his probation in his rural Australian hometown and saving the family farm, hotshot surgeon Hugh Knight is flying high. Will Whyhope's naughtiest doctor have the right stuff, or will he self-destruct and lose everything?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020