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Author: David S. Jones
ISBN : B00BD2DVJ6
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Still the leading cause of death worldwide, heart disease challenges researchers, clinicians, and patients alike. Each day, thousands of patients and their doctors make decisions about coronary angioplasty and bypass surgery. In Broken Hearts David S. Jones sheds light on the nature and quality of those decisions. He describes the debates over what causes heart attacks and the efforts to understand such unforeseen complications of cardiac surgery as depression, mental fog, and stroke.
Why do doctors and patients overestimate the effectiveness and underestimate the dangers of medical interventions, especially when doing so may lead to the overuse of medical therapies? To answer this question, Jones explores the history of cardiology and cardiac surgery in the United States and probes the ambiguities and inconsistencies in medical decision making. Based on extensive reviews of medical literature and archives, this historical perspective on medical decision making and risk highlights personal, professional, and community outcomes.
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- File Size: 1531 KB
- Print Length: 336 pages
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (January 4, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BD2DVJ6
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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WHAT IS MY CONNECTION TO THIS BOOK -- "BROKEN HEARTS: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care" by David S. Jones, MD, PhD, the A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard Medical School? Especially given the title I have selected for this review, I should make clear that I have not been asked by anyone to write this review. Neither have I communicated with anyone about it, nor do I know the author or anyone who knows him. I write this review solely because I hope to persuade as many people as possible to read this exceptionally well researched, beautifully written, and ever so timely and important book.
And so that you might have some perspective regarding my own professional background to enable you to evaluate better my remarks herein, my own personal perspective is as follows. I am not a medical doctor. My professional career has been in finance on Wall Street, which I left after 30 years to establish my own financial organization in Russia. Throughout my life I have had a keen interest in medicine in general and in medical history in particular. Truth be known, although Wall Street was a great ride, I probably would have even more enjoyed becoming a physician or surgeon. Nevertheless, I have for many years been involved in different ways in national medical policy issues, and I have served for long periods on the clinical trial review boards of four of the largest and best academic medical centers in the country, during which years I developed personal relationships with some of the best medical scientists in the world. I hope you will therefore conclude that my remarks are independent and objective, and hopefully that they come from a background that provides me with a wee bit of familiarity about the subject of this book.