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| Thread ID: 94507 | 2008-11-01 23:30:00 | Book Question:Need Title | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 716492 | 2008-11-01 23:30:00 | I seem to remember a book about one of the first open heart surgeries in some jungle on a little girl with a prolapsed mitral valve . The doctor had been schooled that the heart was sacrosanct and must never be touched, let alone operated upon . He defied that classic schooling and opened her heart and inserted a finger to re-align the mitral valve . He knew her death was imminant and she'd not live until morning so he went in and repaired her heart . The book went through the agonizing thoughts and the fears that legitimate science had taught him, yet he had to do something . The book MIGHT'VE had something to do with "Burning Mountains" or "The Night of The Burning Mountain", but I cannot WIKI or Google it to save my life . I'm also not so sure of the name of the doctor . . but DeBakey comes to mind, but not in either research tools . Anyone got an idea? |
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| 716493 | 2008-11-01 23:50:00 | Would this be the one? www.biggerbooks.com |
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| 716494 | 2008-11-02 00:12:00 | Would this be the one? . biggerbooks . com/bk_detail . aspx?isbn=9780977604906" target="_blank">www . biggerbooks . com It's the wrong time of the century . . . I think the one I want is 'way before open heart surgery was thought of as a possibility . I need someone who had this as required reading in school to prolly remember it . . . it was in my High School (Pequannock Township High School) in New Jersey . . but I just checked the book reading requirements there nowadays, and it's not even listed . I saw "Terry has Two Mommies" and "Why Does My Daddy Wear A Dress?" on the list though . Ahhhhh! Mod-ern kids . . and their proctors . . what can I say? :nerd: |
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