Raising Lazarus - Couverture souple

Pensack, Robert Jon; Williams, Dwight Arnan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1573225002 ISBN 13 : 9781573225007

Editeur : Riverhead Books, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Pensack Robert

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Raising Lazarus is Dr. Robert Pensack's personal memoir of his battle to maintain his sanity in the face of extraordinary suffering.Dr. Pensack's story chronicles his near life-long struggle with a mortal illness, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, or HCM (formally known as IHSS), a genetic illness marked by abnormality of the heart muscle. After the disease claimed the life of his young mother, the adolescent Pensack-and his brother Richard, who also suffered from HCM-went on to become chronic-research heart patients at The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. They endured a litany of surgeries and multiple near-death experiences caused by cardiac arrests until, thirty years later, both received heart transplants that saved their lives. Remarkably-and coincidentally-Dr. Pensack played a vital role in the evolution of organ transplantation and in his own survival, helping to produce one of the anti-rejection drugs with which he himself was later treated at the time of his greatest need.From recounting his feeling of being condemned to an existence laden with insufferable burden to the hope restored through the ultimate gift of life, Raising Lazarus is Dr. Pensack's inspirational story of survival and triumph.

Biographie de l'auteur :

New Jersey native Dr. Robert Pensack is a physician, psychiatrist, former general practitioner, and emergency room doctor. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Medical degrees from the University of Colorado and lives with his family in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Dwight Arnan Williams is a critically acclaimed author of several works of nonfiction and fiction. He resides in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Riverhead Books
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1573225002
• ISBN 13: 9781573225007
• Reliure: Poche