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  • A Cat of Nine Lives - Living with Heart Disease - Second Edition

    by Brian Halton ...
    A fully updated account of life with heart disease that now includes cardiac arrest (ventrical fibrilation), cardioversion, heart failure in addition to the surgeries, angioplasties and pacemaker implants covered in the first edition. ... Read more

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  • A Cat of Nine Lives - and the Beat Goes On

    by Brian Halton ...
    Despite more than 32 years of suffering from heart disease Brian Halton has had a full and satisfying life. His two coronary artery graft surgeries, nine angiograms, seven angioplasties, eleven stents, coronary arrest, and a Pacemeker have not left him an invalid but an active senior citizen of 74 years of age. This book describes his experiences and the journey through life since 1983 written now ... Read more

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  • A Legacy of Lancashire: Its Chemists, Biochemists and Industrialists

    by Brian Halton ...
    The book provides a chronological collation of those chemists, biochemists and Industrialists born in the county of Lancashire in the UK who have made a notable contribution to their subject and to mankind in general. The ach individual has a profile and the series begins with William Henry (b.1774) and progresses to contributing living individuals in 2015. It is essentially non-technical but does ... Read more

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  • Things That Matter

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  • Confessions of a Doctor

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  • Under the Microscope

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  • Open Heart

    A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

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    In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from deathWhen Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way the surgeons walked away. As he soon understood, this detachment is a crucial survival strategy in a ... Read more

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  • Anaesthesia

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  • Open Hearts

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