MERACK PUBLISHING
Shot to the Heart: A Doctor's Stories of Life-Saving Cardiac Surgeries
Karl Hemingway Krieger, M.D.
Karl Krieger, a brilliant cardiac surgeon, takes us with a skilled narrative into the high-stakes world of heart surgery. The reader is invited to follow his early years of preparation and then through the drama of life-saving heart surgery for thousands of patients. He, with other surgeons and operating room attendants we meet, describes how heart surgery extends the lives of children born with coronary abnormalities as well as some of the country’s most well-known individuals. Shot to the Heart is a unique journey into medicine and the operating room we never expected to take.
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Dr. Karl Hemingway Krieger worked in New York City as a Cardiothoracic Surgeon for over forty years completing over 15,000 open heart operations during his career. He held the positions of the Philip Geier Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Vice Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine. He lives with his family in Southampton, New York.