State of the Heart, Haider Warraich
State of the Heart, Haider Warraich
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State of the Heart
Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease

Author: Haider Warraich

Narrator: Neil Shah

Unabridged: 11 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/23/2019


Synopsis

In State of the Heart, Dr. Haider Warraich takes readers inside the ER, inside patients' rooms, and inside the history and science of cardiac disease.State of the Heart traces the entire arc of the heart, from the very first time it was depicted on stone tablets, to a future in which it may very well become redundant. While heart disease has been around for a while, the type of heart disease people have, why they have it, and how it’s treated is changing. Yet, the golden age of heart science is only just beginning. And with treatments of heart disease altering the very definitions of human life and death, there is no better time to look at the present and future of heart disease, the doctors and nurses who treat it, the patients and caregivers who live with it, and the stories they hold close to their chests.More people die of heart disease than any other disease in the world and when any form of heart disease progresses, it can result in the development of heart failure. Heart failure affects millions and can affect anyone at anytime, a child recovering from a viral infection, a woman who has just given birth or a cancer patient receiving chemotherapy. Yet new technology to treat heart failure is fundamentally changing just what it means to be human. Mechanical pumps can be surgically sown into patients’ hearts and when patients with these pumps get really sick, sometimes they don’t need a doctor or a surgeon―they need a mechanic. In State of the Heart, the journey to rid the world of heart disease is shown to be reflective of the journey of medical science at large. We are learning not only that women have as much heart disease as men, but that the type of heart disease women experience is diametrically different from that in men. We are learning that heart disease and cancer may have more in common than we could have imagined. And we are learning how human evolution itself may have led to the epidemic of heart disease. In understanding how our knowledge of the heart evolved, State of the Heart traces the twisting and turning road that science has taken―filled with potholes and blind turns―all the way back to its very origin.

About Haider Warraich

DR. HAIDER WARRAICH is currently a fellow in cardiology at Duke University Medical Center. His medical and Op Ed pieces have appeared in many media outlets including the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, and the LA Times among others. He is also the author of Modern Death.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David on May 24, 2019

The human heart is undergoing both scrutiny and transformation as it never has before. The steep learning curve is teaching us how hearts interact with other organs, how lifestyles and medicines affect it, and how the medical fraternity can mediate its weaknesses and failures. In State of the Heart,......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on September 18, 2020

A cardiologist, Haidas Warraich, who studied at Harvard and Duke, writes about his experiences as a cardiologist from young people who have heart attacks, people with heart problems and have undiagnosed cancer, defibrillators and devices that help hearts when heart transplants are unavailable. What......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on July 22, 2019

I am a Registered Nurse and I thought this book was very informative. I learned a lot that I can take back to my practice and share with my patients. I would definitely recommend this to friends, family, and patients suffering from heart disease. Thank you to NetGalley and St, Martins Press for the......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on July 13, 2019

Fascinating. This well written volume covers a lot of issues related to, well, the heart and it does it well. Divided into pointed chapters on individual topics, it's a good tour of a subject that is important to all of us and yet so often opaque because of the difficulty of conveying the informatio......more