His chapters (named to describe the heart’s function in lay terms, including 'dynamo', 'pipes' and 'wires') cleverly dissect the organ into its basic parts. Jauhar gives the backstory to eponyms (like Osler and Billroth), and shares his own clinical experiences to complement the theory. Heart will inevitably trigger memories of years spent in medical school laboratories and lecture theatres, as well as the patients you have met over the years. And Jauhar considers the two against a backdrop of personal stories 'of the heart'.

Understandably, therefore, the book is a mix of science (including fascinating facts - heparin was discovered in the brains of salamanders, and 'from birth until death, beats nearly three billion times') and philosophy ('if the heart bestows life and death, it also instigates metaphor'). The cardiologist chronicles medicine’s quest to understand how the heart works (and how to fix it when it is 'broken'), while considering how we 'can most wisely live with - as well as by – our hearts'. HEART is the story of what Sandeep Jauhar describes as the engine of life. Review by Dr Greg Dollman, medical adviser, MDDUS To learn more about him and his work, follow him on Twitter: He is represented for all speaking engagements by the BrightSight Group.Oneworld Publications, paperback, £9.99, 2019 He has appeared frequently on National Public Radio, CNN, and MSNBC to discuss issues related to medicine, and his essays have also been published in The Wall Street Journal, Time, and Slate. It was named a best book of 2018 by the Mail on Sunday, Science Friday, Zocalo Public Square, and the Los Angeles Public Library, and was the PBS NewsHour/ New York Times book club pick for January 2019.Ī practicing cardiologist, Jauhar is currently a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.

It has been praised as “gripping…(and) strange and captivating” by The New York Times, “fascinating” by The Washington Post, “poignant and chattily erudite” by The Wall Street Journal, and “elegiac” by The American Scholar. Heart: A History, his latest book, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. It was praised as “highly engaging and disarmingly candid” by The Wall Street Journal, “beautifully written and unsparing” by The Boston Globe, and “extraordinary, brave and even shocking” by The New York Times.

His second book, Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician, released in August 2014, was a New York Times bestseller and was named a New York Post Best Book of 2014. His first book, Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation, was a national bestseller and was optioned by NBC for a dramatic television series. Sandeep Jauhar has written three books, all published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

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