Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart

Documents the story of the first human heart transplant and the competition between four top surgeons to master the necessary techniques to make heart transplants possible, in an account that describes the difficult challenges that were faced by each doctor. 40,000 first printing.

• King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
• A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey
• Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
• Hearts: of surgeons and transplants, miracles and disasters along the cardiac frontier
• 100,000 Hearts: A Surgeon's Memoir
• The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart
• The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations
• King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
• The House of God
• When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon