Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children's Lives, (Paperback)

from 33racoonie

It took me an effort to get past the first chapter, which was a graphic and truly emotional (for me, anyway) description of things going wrong during the surgery of a tiny baby. Once I realized the author's intent was to educate, the book would not let go of me. The most fascinating point of the ...

from soam

This is really a fantastic book. Ruhlman is a very good writer and grips you right from the beginning. I felt like he took a balanced view of this profession, which is amazing. I can't even imagine working as hard as these surgeons do, and the stress they must be under. Readers of general non-fic...

from soam

This is really a fantastic book. Ruhlman is a very good writer and grips you right from the beginning. I felt like he took a balanced view of this profession, which is amazing. I can't even imagine working as hard as these surgeons do, and the stress they must be under. Readers of general non-fic...

from debnance

Even though I didn't understand a lot of what was going on, I loved the first two-thirds of the book. I loved the stories about children who were sick and dying and needed heart surgery. I loved the stories about the doctors who worked on the children. Then the story switched to a history of hear...

from kidzdoc

Author and journalist Michael Ruhlman's fascination with people at the top of their professions, who seek perfection in themselves and those around them, led a friend of his to refer him to Dr. Roger Mee, the head of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at the Cleveland Clinic and one of the world's ...