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Tells the story of a kindergarten teacher who underwent a heart transplant in May of 1995, and in so doing provides information about the process of organ donation. ... Read more

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How Will They Get ThatHeart Down Your Throat?
My sister died waiting for a heart transplant 20 years ago and this was not out then but I bought it later when it did come out.It was a great way to help my children understand about heart transplants.In the book the teacher gets and heart and lives a good life afterward. A great book for children if anyone in your family is going through this. ... Read more

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Still relevant today - 1st heart-lung transplant experience
While this book is from the early days of successful thoracic organ transplant, Mary's beautiful and inspirational sharing of what it was like being the first heart and lung transplant recipient to survive (and she did survive 5 years!) would be eye opening and offer much hope to anyone facing that transplant today.Today that survival expectation is much better, of course, but it was because of her bravery and courage that that is the case now.Even through out of print, I highly recommend this reading, especially when you can get it as a used book for 19 cents (plus s&h).Looking at what was involved back then in the early 80's will make anyone appreciate even more the progress leading up to today's successful procedures that mean adding many years of fulfilling life to patients who thought they had death looking them in the face.

A must for anyone about to go through the same experience.
Mary passed away several years ago; however, knowing her and her zeal forliving one cannot help believing that her courage to go through theheart/lung transplant will encourage others to reach out and experience theunknown. ... Read more

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A significant medical event is expected in 1992: the first human use of a fully implantable, long-term cardiac assist device. This timely volume reviews the artificial heart program - and in particular, the National Institutes of Health's major investment - raising important questions. The volume includes: consideration of the artificial heart versus heart transplantation and other approaches to treating end-stage heart disease, keeping in mind the different outcomes and costs of these treatments; a look at human issues, including the number of people who may require the artificial heart, patient quality of life, and other ethical and societal questions; examination of how this technology's use can be targeted most appropriately; and attention to achieving access to this technology for all those who can benefit from it. The committee also offers three mechanisms to aid in allocating research and development funds. ... Read more

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Sometimes, the only way to avoid death is to walk a difficult road and to re-discover life. Solomon Stern is a successful surgeon, who must now choose between life and death on his own behalf, rather than his patients. He does not accept this challenge easily, but his degenerative heart disease forces him to face the option of a heart transplant--or die.The decisions surrounding the transplant, surgery, recovery, and lifestyle, invite him to examine every aspect of how he loves and how he lives.Patrick J. McDonald joins Solomon on the road as his moreh derech (rabbi, advisor, and spiritual friend). They travel the road together and explore questions of life, love, and friendship, from both the Jewish and Christian traditions.Their conversations enrich not only the two of them, but invite the reader to be equally enriched. The book offers a detailed description of the heart transplant experience, but Sol's story is really every person's story, as the unexpected in life forces us to re-examine how we live. The book invites the reader to come along for the journey and enjoy the trip. ... Read more

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In August 2001 the author received immunizations in anticipation of travel to Africa to help children suffering from HIV/AIDS. Soon after the shots, she feel prey to an extraordinarily rare and generally fatal disease. She received a heart transplant 7 weeks later, and fought bravely and successfully to overcome many obstacles in her recovery. She received caring help from many hands as she healed. This book is an expression of her faith and her gratefulness. ... Read more

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Delightfully witty and richly informative, The Alarming History of Medicine is a collection of anecdotes describing how the historical breakthroughs in medicine were really made. Using hilarious stories, based on actual facts, Richard Gordon shows that most of the monumental discoveries were originally accidents.

A must-read for hypochondriacs, doctors, medical students, and anyone fascinated by the world of medicine, The Alarming History of Medicine is clever, revealing--and all true.
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The alarming history of medicine,,,the book
Great read. Could have done without a little of the author's opinions but still a fantastic book...full of cool info.

avoid
I picked this up because I was taking a course in immunology and thought this would provide some entertaining background reading.Not the case:it's stuffy writing replete with confusing Britishisms.Additionally, the organization of the text is not in evidence:it's certainly not a history of medicine or of the interactions between civilization and disease.Just random stories, apparently.Gordon's attempt to be entertaining runs firmly aground.

So painful, you'll need an anesthetic
Reading this book was like trying to walk through waist-deep mud. It is so weighted down with extra, unnecessary words that it just doesn't flow at all. Disappointed, I finally gave up around page 50. Reading Biochemistry was easier & more fun, & that's not saying much!

Absolutely delightful
I seek another book like this one!I read this and found myself laughing out loud in public places such as airports -- I absolutely loved it. I'm interested in medicine and the history was fabulous. Super-entertaining, exceedingly well-written, witty and intellectually stimulating non-fiction -- just my cup of tea.

Virtually Unreadable
This book was so strangely written that it is nearly unreadable. The author's style is just bizarre, and he really assumes that the reader is already familiar with the subject matter. ... Read more

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Many mainline churches make the mistake of thinking that in order to reverse decline they must become something that they are not. Often that change of identity has to do with worship. In a study funded by the Lilly Foundation, Robert Cueni has interviewed pastors and members of dozens of large-membership mainline churches that have turned around long-standing patterns of stagnation or decline. The common denominator he identified is that the leadership of these churches have found ways to incorporate the church’s story and sense of identity into a new story of change and renewal. They work with the strengths they find, move away from the weaknesses, and arrive at a newly thriving congregation. In Dinosaur Heart Transplants, Cueni shares the findings and conclusions from his groundbreaking study and demonstrates how even small and mid-sized congregations can incorporate these patterns of renewal.

Key Features: • Addresses a problem that is being faced in numerous ways by many churches today • Applicable to mainline churches of all sizes • Makes available in an accessible format the findings of a Lilly Foundation study

Key Benefits: • Readers will understand the factors that cause or characterize stagnating churches • Readers will understand the outlook necessary to move churches that have reached a plateau into renewal • Readers will understand how to crystallize a church’s story and sense of identity • Readers will learn how to incorporate that story and identify with a new story of change and renewal • Readers will learn how to identify churches’ weaknesses and move away from them

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Hearts Have Been Transplanted!
Robert Cueni has an encourging outlook for mainline renewal.You will find this book beneficial if you are a layperson or clergy of a mainline church of any size.Very practical, very positive, very uplifting.I planto share this book with my entire church board. ... Read more

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Death, suffering, rebirth, and humor are the stuff of great literature. This book is a collection of powerful stories told by 50 persons who have been through the heart transplant experience. We are drawn into the sorrows, joys, ironies, and trials of people at the edge of their existence. Each story reflects a miracle – the body begins to rebuild, gratitude swells at the gift of the donor, the community of family and friends flourish, and life becomes more precious. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Transplant News, published by Transplant Communications, Inc. on June 30, 2005. The length of the article is 468 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: UNOS awarded contracts to redesign ASTS Web site, collect data for NIH heart device registry.
Publication: Transplant News (Newsletter)
Date: June 30, 2005
Publisher: Transplant Communications, Inc.
Volume: 15Issue: 12

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Meet heart-transplant recipient, Beth Bartlett, a youngwife and mother who has faced death repeatedly, beginning at agetwenty when she nearly died from an inflammation of the heart lining,and continuing into her forties, when she suffered numerous cardiacarrests before getting a new heart. Drawing on Beth's personalreflections regarding her illness, near-death experience, and literalawakening to new life, Journey of the Heart shows us how tolive and love wholeheartedly. ... Read more

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Thoughts and feelings during a period of near-death episodes
This admirable young lady - I know - showed amazing courage during a time of near death episodes prior to a final heart transplant. Her insightful description of the thoughts and feelings experienced during this period of heart stoppages, fibrilations and a trip to the operating room for a transplant only to find the available heart not suitable and be sent home results in lessons in living for all of us. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Pediatric News, published by International Medical News Group on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 930 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Heart transplant shouldn't delay vaccination.(Small study)
Author: Jane Salodof MacNeil
Publication: Pediatric News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 38Issue: 7Page: NA

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This digital document is an article from Transplant News, published by Transplant Communications, Inc. on October 16, 1998. The length of the article is 334 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: German heart transplant survivors satisfied with their lives despite variety of health problems.
Publication: Transplant News (Newsletter)
Date: October 16, 1998
Publisher: Transplant Communications, Inc.
Issue: 19Page: NA

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This digital document is an article from Transplant News, published by Transplant Communications, Inc. on December 31, 1998. The length of the article is 728 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: New drug that reduces scarring could reduce need for a heart transplant.
Publication: Transplant News (Newsletter)
Date: December 31, 1998
Publisher: Transplant Communications, Inc.
Volume: 8Issue: 24Page: NA

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This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 2000 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fatal disseminated Acanthamoeba lenticulata infection in a heart transplant patient.(DISPATCHES)(Disease/Disorder overview)
Author: Stephane Barete
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 13Issue: 5Page: 736(3)

Article Type: Disease/Disorder overview

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How would you react if your baby lapsed into a seizure and stopped breathing at home? On the verge of death, due to an inherited heart disease, a miracle occurs for Jason! Transported by LifeFlight from Salt Lake City, Utah to Southern California, he receives a heart transplant, during a midnight surgery. This detailed narrative of an infant heart transplant at Loma Linda University Medical Center, will ignite a flame in the very core of your soul. A story centered around one family's passion, hope, and tenacity. Reviewed by John Harricharan, bestseller author ofWhen You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on September 5, 2003. The length of the article is 865 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: `I'M LIVING A SECOND LIFE'.(Health)(Eugene man defies the odds, living 16 years after two heart transplants)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: September 5, 2003
Publisher: The Register Guard
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"Heart Transplant" is the second book of poems which Doris believes is more powerful than the first one because in Jeremiah 17:9 God said "the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." Doris remembers when she started on this walk with God. She thought as long as she looked good on the outside it would make her feel good on the inside. Yes, it did for a moment. She also could not understand how when she wanted to do the right thing she could not. God through the Holy Spirit revealed to Doris through one of her poems how she would reach for people, places or things to change how she felt. This only gave her a temporary fix which reminded her of what the drugs and alcohol did. For those of you who have not read her first book "The Power of God" this book reveal how God delivered her from drugs and alcohol. In this book" Heart Transplant" Doris is asking you take a journey with her through her poems how God is continuing to repair her heart for the glorious celebration of the coming of His son who is king of kings and Lord of Lords. ... Read more

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Inspiring
I was incredibly inspired by the poems and attached photos in the book.The subjects covered in Doris' poetry speak to a place where many women have traveled, some of whom never return.Doris has incredible courage for sharing her personal struggles and God found solutions with the world.In a time when few are willing to speak out, it is refreshing to see a book of poetry published that comes straight from the heart. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Transplant News, published by Transplant Communications, Inc. on March 30, 2001. The length of the article is 360 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: ABO-incompatible heart transplants appear safe in infants; finding could reduce waiting time for donor organs.(Brief Article)
Publication: Transplant News (Newsletter)
Date: March 30, 2001
Publisher: Transplant Communications, Inc.
Volume: 11Issue: 6Page: NA

Article Type: Brief Article

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This digital document is an article from Internal Medicine News, published by International Medical News Group on April 1, 2002. The length of the article is 838 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: LVAD eyed as long-term option in severe CHF. (Cardiovascular Medicine: No longer just bridge to transplant).(congestive heart failure)(left-ventricular assist devices)(Brief Article)
Author: Erik L. Goldman
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2002
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 35Issue: 7Page: 41(1)

Article Type: Brief Article

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