A Cardiologist Explains Things: Basic Information for the Layperson - Softcover

Lurie M.D., Paul R.; Lurie, Andrea R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1517661773 ISBN 13: 9781517661779

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

The author, an academic physician and the oldest pediatric cardiologist in the world, discovered Lifetime Learning Institute when he retired. He enjoyed the courses so much that he volunteered to teach one in his area of expertise. "A Cardiologist Explains Things" was an 8-session course that attracted a steadfast audience of enthusiastic seniors. It was so successful that he converted the material from a verbal presentation to this book. As a pediatric cardiologist used to explaining problems and procedures to child patients and their parents, his style is simple and easy to follow. The book is flavored by tales of the historical development of modern cardiac technology, experienced and contributed to significantly by the author. He has had two superb collaborators in this project: his daughter, Andrea, a personal fitness teacher who wrote the chapter on Lifestyle Changes and his friend and fellow pediatric cardiologist, Ruben Acherman M.D, who is also a talented medical illustrator.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Paul Lurie was born in Amsterdam NY in 1917. He graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1942, a few months after Pearl Harbor. He was able to get a year of Pediatric internship at Yale before his 3-year stint as an Air Force physician. After the war he returned to Yale and completed his Pediatric Residency just at the time when the new specialty of Pediatric Cardiology was created. He was asked to be the first fellow in this new section of pediatrics at Yale and was there for two more years, helping establish one of the first cardiac catheterization labs devoted to the diagnosis of children. After that he established Pediatric Cardiology at the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children of Indiana University and was there for 17 years. He then went to University of Southern California and was Head of Cardiology at its Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles for 15 years until he retired in 1982. He moved back to Albany Medical College where he did teaching and research until moving to Woodland Pond 3 years ago. Because of longevity he is the oldest living pediatric cardiologist in the world, but he still loves to teach and hopes that you will enjoy this book as much as he has enjoyed putting it together.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1517661773
• ISBN 13: 9781517661779
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 180
• Illustrator: Acherman M.D. Ruben