❝ Today, open-heart surgery, pacemakers and even heart transplants feel fairly routine. Dr. Sandeep Jauhar joins us to take us back to a time when pioneering physicians risked their careers – and sometimes patients’ lives – to develop these lifesaving innovations. And he’ll talk about life as a cardiologist who suffers from heart disease. His new book is called “Heart: A History” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). [Kera.org]
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❝ NEW YORK, September 20, 2018 — Practicing cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar discusses his book Heart: A History, which explores his own family history of heart disease from the gripping perspective of the operating room theater, with Sharad Paul, a medical doctor who has written several books about genetics, health, and evolution. The conversation was part of a daylong celebration of literature, ideas, and culture at JLF at New York.
❝ Exploring little-known, behind-the-scenes work in hospitals and the all-too-human lives of doctors, Dr. Sandeep Jauhar is a practicing cardiologist and author of two bestselling medical memoirs, Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation and the “extraordinary, brave and even shocking” (New York Times) Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician. Jauhar is a frequent contributor The Wall Street Journal, Time, NPR, and MSNBC, and has written about medicine for The New York Times for more than 20 years. In Heart, Jauhar weaves his own work with historical research and the findings of groundbreaking new technologies to tell the story of our most colorful yet inscrutable organ. [FreeLibrary.org]
SANDEEP JAUHAR is a New York Times columnist & author of the acclaimed memoirs, Intern & Doctored. Watch him discuss his bestselling memoir Doctored below, and learn more about booking Sandeep for your next event today.