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Scrubbed : a heart surgeon's extraordinary memoir of life, death and everything in between / Dr. Nikki Stamp.

Scrubbed is a raw, honest account of a life lived at the very edge of modern medicine, where heart surgeons tread the thinnest of lines between life and death and yet where the greatest challenge can be the medical system itself. From the drama of the operating theatre, filled with both triumph and...

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Main Author: Stamp, Nikki (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
Subjects:
Stamp, Nikki.
Heart surgeons > Australia > Biography.
Women surgeons > Australia > Biography.
Autobiographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: my heart's desire
  • Part I. Scrubbing in
  • 1. Shit and assholes
  • 2. The way of the heart
  • 3. Still in the shit
  • 4. It is heart surgery
  • 5. Clinically dead
  • 6. What becomes of the broken-hearted
  • 7. To mend a broken heart
  • 8. The downside
  • 9. No place for a bleeded heart
  • Part II. Scrubbing out
  • 10. The heart of the matter
  • 11. Suspended in the cold
  • 12. God is not a cardiothoracic surgeon
  • 13. Heart and soul
  • 14. Heartless
  • 15. The heart will go on
  • Epilogue.

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