![]() Surely, I thought, the heart deserved more than 2.89% of BB’s total body dissection.Īfter completing my critical mission, I must admit, however, that he did a decent job of relating some of the fascinating history of cardiovascular medicine without giving out horribly bad advice. ![]() Cardiac disease is the biggest killer of men and women in the US and the amazing treatments ranging from drugs to devices that cardiologists have developed to dramatically cut heart disease death are nothing short of astounding. ![]() The process did not take long as Bryson shockingly only devoted 13 of the book’s 450 pages to, in my totally unbiased opinion, the most interesting, best understood, and most important body organ on the planet. Last month’s book was “The Body: A Guide for Occupants” by Bill Bryson (BB.) Now I’m a big fan of BB, especially his early work and, in particular, “ Notes From a Small Island,” having spent the first five years of my life on a small island I consider myself a human body aficionado but the idea of reading a layperson’s guide to the body, even one with the wit and humor of BB did not initially appeal to me.Ĭonsequently I decided to only read the portion dealing with the heart and critique it viciously. ![]() Roughly once per month, the participants are gifted a book to read and subsequently discuss at a zoomgregation. ![]() One of the many perquisites of practicing medicine at Saint Louis University has been the opportunity to participate in a medicine and literature program. ![]()
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