When Death Becomes Life

Posted on 21 October 2018 by Joshua D. Mezrich

At the University of Wisconsin, Dr Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day.When Death Becomes Life is a thrilling look at how science advances on a grand scale to improve human lives Mezrich examinesthan one hundred years of remarkable medical breakthroughs, connecting this fascinating history with the inspiring and heartbreaking stories of his transplant patients Combining gentle sensitivity with scientific clarity, Mezrich reflects on his calling as a doctor and introduces the modern pioneers who made transplantation a reality maverick surgeons whose feats of imagination, bold vision, and daring risk taking generated techniques and practices that save millions of lives around the world.Mezrich takes us inside the operating room and unlocks the wondrous process of transplant surgery, a delicate, intense ballet requiring precise timing, breathtaking skill, and at times, creative improvisation In illuminating this work, Mezrich touches the essence of existence and what it means to be alive Most physicians fight death, but in transplantation, doctors take from death Mezrich shares his gratitude and awe for the privilege of being part of this transformative exchange as the dead give their last breath of life to the living After all, the donors are his patients, too.When Death Becomes Life also engages in fascinating ethical and philosophical debates 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 What defines death, and what role did organ transplantation play in that definition The human story behind the most exceptional medicine of our time, Mezrich s riveting book is a beautiful, poignant reminder that a life lost can also offer the hope of a new beginning. 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Mezrich For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr 5 star book Really excellent Review to come The history of transplantation is actually interesting, as is the sensitive use of language that has evolved alongside it Surgeons no longer harvest organs from corpses, they procure them from donorsConsider five lives can be impacted positively with a body donation via surgical transplantation While Dr Joshua D Mezrich covers over 100 years of surgical transplant history and entices you into the OR to witness the perfusion of a kidney post transplant Here anything lacking perfection equates to morbid outcomes for patient and surgeon The liver will start pouring bile The lungs start essentially breathing, the most dramatic organ, of course, is the heart, because you put it in and Consider five lives can be impacted positively with a body donation via surgical transplantation While Dr Joshua D Mezrich covers over 100 years of surgical transplant history and entices you into the OR to witness the perfusion of a kidney post transplant Here anything lacking perfection equates to morbid outcomes for patient and surgeon The liver will start pouring bile The lungs start essentially breathing, the most dramatic organ, of course, is the heart, because you put it in and you kind of give a little shock and it just starts beating, and that s pretty darn dramatic Joshua D Mezrich, MD Reflecting on When Death Becomes Life Notes from a Transplant Surgeon the book unravels like a vine in a most riveting way It engages us to question, should a chronically alcoholic woman receive a donor liver Mezrich recalls his patients with accuracy like patient is yellow as a banana and why this is medically significant At University of Wisconsin at Madison Dr Mezrich orchestrates medical thauma...There is a reason this book has a 96% 5 star rating on .As someone who has been interested in medicine since I was a young child, I tend to read a lot of books such as this one This is one of the best I ve read in the field of organ transplants.While you will learn about the pioneers in the field in this book, you will also read about what it means to be a person on a waiting list for an organ transplant, and the feeling that someone else needs to die so that you can live Of course, this There is a reason this book has a 96% 5 star rating on .As someone who has been interested in medicine since I was a young child, I tend to read a lot of books such as this one This is one of the best I ve read in the field of organ transplants.While you will learn about the pioneers in the field in this book, you will also read about what it means to be a person on a waiting list for an organ transplant, and the feeling that someone else needs to die so that you can live Of course, this is not true in all cases, as living donors are now common for liver and single kidney transplants, but anyone needing an organ to live must grapple with the fact that someone else must either sacrifice a portion of one of their own organs, or someone else must die.This book is, as you might expect, about what it is like to be on the front lines of organ transplants the waiting, the phone call that may come at any moment and activates such a chain of events leadi...It is an underappreciated fact that today a surgeon can, if needed, rip open your chest, remove your heart, replace it with another one, and if all goes well, have you discharged in 10 days This amazing feat of modern medicine, one we may rarely think about, was at one point thought to be nothingthan a science fiction fantasy and rightly so The number of hurdles standing in the way of successful transplantation was enormous These included figuring out how to suture together blood vessel It is an underappreciated fact that today a surgeon can, if needed, rip open your chest, remove your heart, replace it with another one, and if all goes well, have you discharged in 10 days This amazing feat of modern medicine, one we may rarely think about, was at one point thought to be nothingthan a science fiction fantasy and rightly so The number of hurdles standing in the way of successful transplantation was enormous These included figuring out how to suture together blood vessels without leakage or damage to the inner lining, how to keep patients alive by temporarily taking over the function of failed organs dialysis for kidneys and cardiopulmonary bypass for the heart and lungs , and developing anti rejection medication to prevent the host immune system from attacking the donated organ Throw in the ethical and logistical issues associated with procuri...3.5 starsBooks by doctors who wield scalpels are some of my favorites, and Mezrich does a great job introducing the reader to the history and current practice of transplant surgery.The good This is not a comprehensive history of transplantation, nor a memoir, nor a collection of patient stories It s equal parts of each, allowing us to get an overview of the field in a personal, relatable way Transplant surgery is amazing, and Mezrich obviously loves his job and sharing that wonder and excit 3.5 starsBooks by doctors who wield scalpels are some of my favorites, and Mezrich does a great job introducing the reader to the history and current practice of transplant surgery.The good This is not a comprehensive history of transplantation, nor a memoir, nor a collection of patient stories It s equal parts of each, allowing us to get an overview of the field in a personal, relatable way Transplant surgery is amazing, and Mezrich obviously loves his job and sharing that wonder and excitement with us It s almost like he s going, Look Isn t this cool And it is The pioneers of the field, like most doctors in the 1960s and 70s, were men, so I appreciate that he takes the time to acknowledge a woman who is leading the fie...Summary This book was a mixed bag for me, with some parts that were farinteresting than others and a tone that varied from too formal to too informal to spot on.This is one of the many recent releases in what is becoming one of my favorite genres, memoir plus an intro to another topic In this case, transplant surgeon Joshua Mezrich combines his professional memoir with a history of transplant surgery and some of his patients stories This blend gives the reader a glimpse of both the te Summary This book was a mixed bag for me, with some parts that were farinteresting than others and a tone that varied from too formal to too informal to spot on.This is one of the many recent releases in what is becoming one of my favorite genres, memoir plus an intro to another topic In this case, transplant surgeon Joshua Mezrich combines his professional memoir with a history of transplant surgery and some of his patients stories This blend gives the reader a glimpse of both the technical aspects of transplant surgery and the day to day human experience of receiving, donating, and transplanting organs.I immediately suspected this book was going to be a mix of good and bad based on the author s tone Within...In this debut memoir a surgeon surveys the history of organ transplantation, recalling his own medical education and the special patients he s met along the way In the 1940s and 1950s patient after patient was lost to rejection of the transplanted organ, post surgery infection, or hemorrhaging Mezrich marvels at how few decades passed between transplantation seeming like something out of a science fiction future and becoming a commonplace procedure His aim is to never lose his sense of wonder In this debut memoir a surgeon surveys the history of organ transplantation, recalling his own medical education and the special patients he s met along the way In the 1940s and 1950s patient after patient was lost to rejection of the transplanted organ, post surgery infection, or hemorrhaging Mezrich marvels at how few decades passed between transplantation seeming like something out of a science fiction future and ...To give is to receiveI did and this one thing I know This book describes in detail the heroes and their stories who blazed the trail of transplantation Being a donor and having a healthy husband is my reward Thanks Josh for your part in making this a reality to our family This book helps me...This was so cool I love books about medicine and doctors and often find them pretty enjoyable But THIS was humorous and interesting and obviously well researched.Big thanks to Harper Books for sending me a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review I LOVED this book and I will definitely be thinking about it for a long time I am in the medical field and I love reading about anything medical, from healthcare provider s experiences to any past history regarding the field When I saw this book was coming out, I was extremely excited and had to get my hands on a copy I love learning new things through books and I didn t know that much about su Big thanks to Harper Books for sending me a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review I LOVED this book and I will definitely be thinking about it for a long time I am in the medical field and I love reading about anything medical, from healthcare provider s experiences to any past history regarding the field When I saw this book was coming out, I was extremely excited and had to get my hands on a copy I love learning new things through books and I didn t know that much about surgery before reading this one But man did I learn a lot Dr Mezrich gave so much history about the first heart liver lung pancreas transplants and it was so interesting It definitely felt drier at times since the material is pretty dense, but it was very interesting and informative The history made me reflect on the way that the medical field has changed so much over the years, and it was so crazy to read about the first procedures and about these courageous surgeons S...Thanks to BookShout for letting me read this book In order to fully appreciate this book, one needs to take anatomy and a medical terminology class Or google everything they don t understand and take forever reading this It also could use pictures to demonstrate what he s talking about with crossing or connecting the veins and arteries and where people have put kidneys in the past, etc There are also a lotttt of historical figures whom I ve never heard of before to keep track I need a timel Thanks to BookShout for letting me read this book In order to fully appreciate this book, one needs to take anatomy and a medical terminology class Or google everything they don t understand and take forever reading this It also could use pictures to demonstrate what he s talking about with crossing or connecting the veins and a...This was an amazing book It was very much in the same vein as The Emperor of all Maladies Mezrich writes a history of organ transplantation intertwined with personal anecdotes and stories from his career as a transplant surgeon It was thoroughly interesting, mov...2.5 This is a decent medical book but after the glorious writing in Emperor of Maladies it is somewhat deficient For instance, the writer delineates a certain operation but I have no idea to which the author references Diagrams, analogies, pictures, even a YouTube link would have been of much use but I am left to wonder as medical jargon abounds without any layperson reference Further, the writing is somewhat insipid in that the pioneers of transplantation are limited to severe exposition 2.5 This is a decent medical book but after the glorious writing in Emperor of Maladies it is somewhat deficient For instance, the writer delineates a certain operation but I have no idea to which the author references Diagrams, analogies, pictures, even a YouTube link would have been of much use but I am left to wonder as medical jargon abounds without any layperson reference Further, the writing is somewhat insipid in that the pioneers of transplantation are limited to severe exposition without much life given to them I appreciated the passages where the author has done so but they remain few and far between Ex...

21 October 2018

Joshua D. Mezrich