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The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tickFor centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live.Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world’s first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. We meet C. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient’s circulatory system to a healthy donor’s, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker—by accident. Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family’s history of heart ailments and the patients he’s treated over many years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.

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I was curious to read Dr Jauhar's history of the heart not only because I have liked his NYTimes pieces on medicine but also since I knew him somewhat from being together in the Physics PhD program at UC Berkeley in the 1990s. I had enough of study after several years of quantum mechanics and non-linear dynamics, so what could possess this guy to go on to cut cadavers and medical residency (no sleep for 36 hours!) for years ?! ; the whole point of doing physics , after all, was to avoid matters of human messiness, things that bled, smelled and unlike the grand Universe, just died inexplicably one day. But after starting on Heart : A History I am grateful that Sandeep was more diligent in his path to understand this (after the brain) this poorly understood organ - the seat of emotion, where human civilization has sprung from. He has brought the physicist's eye to understand the mechanisms that work and fail - the cause and effect on human health and emotional wellness. Although the conclusions are, by now, well known - we need to eat, smoke less, exercise more and just go with the flow more in this bewildering world, we learn more on the reasons why. Dr Jauhar's prose, although sometimes fitful, keeps our attention throughout, by switching from one particular human story to the next - putting each in context of its times and our own. if I were to nitpick, I thought he could add more on the neat physical mechanisms that make this amazing piece of evolutionary engineering work. Leonardo da Vinci, for example, apparently was the first to realize how the aortic valve controlled blood flow one-way out of the heart - by creating vortices that closed the valve after each pump stroke - Walter Isaacson claims that scientists didnt recognize this until 500 years after the Renaissance. He also glossed over some important observations. for instance, the well known tendency for hypertension among African Americans is also common to South Asians who face less racism and inner city turmoil, so if not a genetic explanation, could it be that these peoples had adjusted to hotter climates where sweat simply loses salt, stabilizing blood pressure at a lower level ? Also, I wish he explained more on why the heart is considered the seat of emotion - yes, takotsubo cardiomyopathy - the weakening of the heart muscles when subject to adrenaline from stress may be part of the picture. But then why do people who exercise regularly, get regular doses of adrenaline, actually have healthier stronger hearts ?there were also a few too many personal anecdotes in the narrative, but that still doesnt take away much from this heart felt achievement. i remember a quip about Benjamin Franklin who 'quit science to be side-tracked into administration' . well I am glad Sandeep Jauhar quit physics to be sidetracked into medicine!

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