The Puzzle People: Memoirs Of A Transplant Surgeon
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (842 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822958368 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Starzl pays tribute to colleagues who either paved the way or helped set the course, while firmly judging those he views as impeders. If he does not lay to rest the philosophical and financial issues surrounding organ transplantation, he succeeds in making us reconsider reservations, reminding us that "All triumphs in medicine are the forgotten sorrows of past days." Photos not seen by PW . Moving from the University of Colorado to the University of Pittsburgh--he established renal transplantation centers at both--he takes us through the advances, from the technique requiring related kidney donors to cadaveric kidney and liver implants to the development of drugs to aid in managing rejection and infection, to programs for finding donors and transporting their organs. . From Publishers Weekly Powerful, poignant, deft, this memoir in itself serves as a masterful argument for organ transpla
"Interesting personal account of recent surgical history" according to Alon Kahana. This book, by transplantation pioneer Dr. Thomas Starzl, is an easy read, a wonderfully inspiring story, and an interesting history of modern surgical medicine. I was compelled to write the review because of several reviews that disparage Dr. Starzl and this book.The book is an inspirational story of a young mid-westerner, with no connections or wealth to help him in his journey, who innovated, struggled, competed, succeeded, and eventually became THE transplant surgeon in the world. The reason Pittsburg. rroder@nwidt.com said An excellent treatise of the life of a hero. Dr. Starzl's unassuming book is a must read for anyone who has ever checked "organ donor" on their driver's license, or those who have thought of it, or dreaded it, or for anyone who knows or knew a transplant recipient or donor. One wonders how Dr. Starzl had time to right this, as he worked tirelessly to battle kidney and liver disease. It is fantastically written, I couldn't wait to begin the next adventure that was surely around the corner. Dr. Starzl lived a novel every day, and proved in his treati. Honor and privilege I was privileged to work as a registered nurse on Dr Starzl's "transplant unit" from 1969 to 1973. Though I later attained graduate degrees and significantly desirable positions, this transplant experience was the highlight of my professional career. I knew Dr Starzl to be an exceptional research scientist AND a human being -- sometimes a painful combination. He was a man of superior knowledge and integrity. He never gave up. He required the same discipline of all who participated. I recall a situation w
and a PhD. While he was a student, and later during his surgical internship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, he began the series of animal experiments that led eventually to the world’s first transplantation of the human liver in 1963.Throughout his career, first at the University of Colorado and then at the University of Pittsburgh, he has aroused both worldwide admiration and controversy. His technical innovations and medical genius have revolutionized the field, but Starzl has not hesitated to address the moral and ethical issues raised by transplantation. In this book he clearly states his position on many hotly debated issues including brain death, randomized trials for experimental drugs, the costs of transplant operations, and the system for selecting organ recipients from among scores of desperately ill patients.There are many heroes in the story of transplantation, and many “puzzle people,” the patients who, as one journalist suggested, might one day be made entirely of various transplanted parts. They are old and young, obscure and world famous. Some have been taken into the hearts of America, like Stormie Jones, the brave and beautiful child from Texas. Every patient who receives someone else’s organ - and Starzl