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A pioneering cardiac surgeon expertly sews up the heart of surgery. The Angina Monologues speeds from the transporting of a donor's heart up the highway's shoulder, to cautionary stories of excessive intervention gone awry in US hospitals, to a traumatic trip to bring advanced cardiac surgery to the Palestinian West Bank. Nashef tells heartstopping stories of transplants, coronary artery bypasses, aorta repair, and cardiac arrest. He also delivers humane advice about medical realities rarely observed: the futility of obsessing over diet, the necessity of calculating risks, the role of decision making, and the resilience of doctor and patient alike. Nashef is a magnificently warm and likeable doctor and writer; and he has the best imaginable bedside manner.

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Enthralling and outspoken. --The Times Praise for The Naked Surgeon A Malcolm Gladwell-esque look at what happens in operating theatres...Nashef's humanity and compassion shine through. --The Times One can't help but think of Henry Marsh when reading Samer Nashef...[He] writes clearly, with plentiful moments of humor. --The Independent [The Naked Surgeon] takes a scalpel to the medical profession and asks if patients get the standard of care they have the right to expect from their surgeons...A valuable resource. --Irish Independent Praise for Samer Nashef: The question one is asked most frequently as a newspaper feature writer, alongside how do you get your ideas? and do you actually get paid for writing that crap? , is who's the most interesting person you've interviewed? In my case the answer changes and, while the experiences of meeting Bill Clinton and Bros are obviously right up there, I usually settle on the heart surgeon Samer Nashef. He left a deep impression not only because I watched him conduct emergency surgery and save a man's life, and because as co-creator of the EuroSCORE system, a safety and monitoring tool that predicts the outcomes of heart surgery, he has arguably saved thousands of other lives too, and because he also compiles cryptic crosswords for The Guardian and the Financial Times under a pseudonym in his spare time, but because he taught me about how people have a tendency to be overly in awe of authority figures like him. --Sathnam Sanghera, The Times

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Samer Nashef is a cardiac surgeon at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. He is a dedicated teacher and communicator and is recognized as a world-leading expert on risk and quality in surgical care. He is the author of over 200 widely-cited articles and has spoken in over 30 countries, including across the United States. He is the author of The Naked Surgeon and a compiler of cryptic crosswords for The Guardian and the Financial Times.

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