HOW DEATH BECOMES LIFE

How Death Becomes Life : Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

Author: Joshua Mezrich
ISBN: 9781786498892
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Publisher,Atlantic Books
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Format, Paperback
Weight, 420 g
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Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he examines more than one hundred years of remarkable medical breakthroughs, connecting this fascinating history with the stories of his own patients.

Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily: How much risk should a healthy person be allowed to take to save someone she loves? Should a patient suffering from alcoholism receive a healthy liver? The human story behind the most exceptional medicine of our time, Mezrich's riveting book is a poignant reminder that a life lost can also offer the hope of a new beginning.

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HOW DEATH BECOMES LIFE

What an interesting, educational, thought-provoking book this is. It is also anxiety-provoking because some of the case examples provided illustrate the various random ways the human body can simply malfunction, creating literal life and death decisions.

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Tiong Yong Keu
HOW DEATH BECOMES LIFE

What we take for granted now, the gift of transporting life, is humbly illuminated in this book of life. Medical progress is made by courageous, strong, fearless, brilliant and deeply human individuals. Amazing how far we’ve come in a short time before technological thinking. The stories of decades past and recent past are synchronized and the truth is that it is our innate nature to fight to live... in our own body or another’s because of love. Thank you to the brave soldiers in the medical field who step into the front lines.