Looking back through his nearly forty-year career, Dr. Omar Lattouf vividly recounts his experiences as a heart surgeon layered in personal and professional stories. From his education and residency training through later years as an independent surgeon, Dr. Lattouf dedicated himself to providing care to patients suffering from numerous cardiac aliments.
While expressing complete confidence in his decision to become a cardiac surgeon, Dr. Lattouf acknowledges that if he didn’t grow up in an age before calculators and harbor a deep distaste for the “slide rule”, he likely would have become an engineer. A career as a physician, however, was not without hardship. Detailing his early training of long hours in the operating room and intensive care units, a picture of the passion, determination, and experience required to excel as a physician quickly becomes clear. Days without sleep were common, and the tremendous burden of losing a patient is one never far from Dr. Lattouf’s mind. Yet he also reflects on the more positive opportunities, including his participation in the emerging world of heart and heart lung transplantation that resulted in over one hundred, adrenaline inducing heart transplant “runs”. And those of his later years, distinguished by thousands of operations, ranging from the ordinary to those never before attempted.
Although this book details only part of the endless encounters that constituted his career, these stories are those that most shaped him as a person and left an indelible effect on his memory. Knowing that his remarkable career was facilitated by those around him, Dr. Lattouf simultaneously strives to thank those colleagues and family members who supported him throughout, and pass along guidance to those who will follow his path. And ultimately, from moments of failure to hair-raising encounters and achievements, these Heartfelt Stories illuminate the complex life of a heart surgeon.
PROCEEDS FROM THIS BOOK WILL GO TO SUPPORT CARDIOVASCULAR EDUCATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR PATIENT CARE.
THE AUTHOR WILL NOT USE ANY OF THE PROCEEDS FOR PERSONAL BENEFIT
While expressing complete confidence in his decision to become a cardiac surgeon, Dr. Lattouf acknowledges that if he didn’t grow up in an age before calculators and harbor a deep distaste for the “slide rule”, he likely would have become an engineer. A career as a physician, however, was not without hardship. Detailing his early training of long hours in the operating room and intensive care units, a picture of the passion, determination, and experience required to excel as a physician quickly becomes clear. Days without sleep were common, and the tremendous burden of losing a patient is one never far from Dr. Lattouf’s mind. Yet he also reflects on the more positive opportunities, including his participation in the emerging world of heart and heart lung transplantation that resulted in over one hundred, adrenaline inducing heart transplant “runs”. And those of his later years, distinguished by thousands of operations, ranging from the ordinary to those never before attempted.
Although this book details only part of the endless encounters that constituted his career, these stories are those that most shaped him as a person and left an indelible effect on his memory. Knowing that his remarkable career was facilitated by those around him, Dr. Lattouf simultaneously strives to thank those colleagues and family members who supported him throughout, and pass along guidance to those who will follow his path. And ultimately, from moments of failure to hair-raising encounters and achievements, these Heartfelt Stories illuminate the complex life of a heart surgeon.
PROCEEDS FROM THIS BOOK WILL GO TO SUPPORT CARDIOVASCULAR EDUCATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR PATIENT CARE.
THE AUTHOR WILL NOT USE ANY OF THE PROCEEDS FOR PERSONAL BENEFIT
