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Paperback. Condition: Good. Raising Lazarus is Dr. Robert Pensack's personal memoir of his battle to maintain his sanity in the face of extraordinary suffering. Dr. Pensack's story chronicles his near life-long struggle with a mortal illness, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, or HCM (formally known as IHS), a genetic illness marked by abnormality of the heart muscle. After the disease claimed the life of his young mother, the adolescent Pensack--and his brother Richard, who also suffered from HCM--went on to become chronic-research heart patients at The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. They endured a litany of surgeries and multiple near-death experiences caused by cardiac arrests until, thirty years later, both received heart transplants that saved their lives. Remarkably--and coincidentally--Dr. Pensack played a vital role in the evolution of organ transplantation and in his own survival, helping to produce one of the anti-rejection drugs with which he himself was later treated at the time of his greatest need. From recounting his feeling of being condemned to an existence laden with insufferable burden to the hope restored through the ultimate gift of life, Raising Lazarus is Dr. Pensack's inspirational story of survival and triumph. Extraordinary.A doctor's memoir of his struggle against his own illness.An intimate account of the remarkable medical advances of the last few decades from a] unique point of view.--New York Times Book Review.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Raising Lazarus is Dr. Robert Pensack's personal memoir of his battle to maintain his sanity in the face of extraordinary suffering. Dr. Pensack's story chronicles his near life-long struggle with a mortal illness, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, or HCM (formally known as IHS), a genetic illness marked by abnormality of the heart muscle. After the disease claimed the life of his young mother, the adolescent Pensack--and his brother Richard, who also suffered from HCM--went on to become chronic-research heart patients at The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. They endured a litany of surgeries and multiple near-death experiences caused by cardiac arrests until, thirty years later, both received heart transplants that saved their lives. Remarkably--and coincidentally--Dr. Pensack played a vital role in the evolution of organ transplantation and in his own survival, helping to produce one of the anti-rejection drugs with which he himself was later treated at the time of his greatest need. From recounting his feeling of being condemned to an existence laden with insufferable burden to the hope restored through the ultimate gift of life, Raising Lazarus is Dr. Pensack's inspirational story of survival and triumph. Extraordinary.A doctor's memoir of his struggle against his own illness.An intimate account of the remarkable medical advances of the last few decades from a] unique point of view.--New York Times Book Review.…

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paperback. Condition: Good. 0th Edition. The corners are slightly bent. Used - Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed and inscribed first edition with full number line. Good, with some wear to cover.Missing dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Typical library marks; light wear; a nice copy. 315 pages. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Owner's name written on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED on title page. very good in cream boards with gilded design down the front and back of black cloth spine, DJ very good, Clean tight 1st edition inscribed and signed by author. From Publishers Weekly: This remarkable memoir by 43-year-old psychiatrist Pensack is really three stories in one: his battle to survive HCM (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), a usually fatal hereditary disease of the heart muscle; the struggle to retain his sanity; and his simultaneous efforts to complete medical school. Collaborator Williams ably helps convey both Pensack's powers of observation and will to survive despite--or because of--his encounters with mortality. Accounts of heart failure, near-death episodes and months of waiting for an available replacement heart, followed in 1993 by the suspenseful, prolonged surgery at University Hospital in Denver, recovery, and beginning of what Pensack hopes will be a new life make for wrenching and engrossing reading. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition, First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

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Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. 314 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. A Rare Kind Of Book, A Candid Memoir Of Desperate Illness And Uncertain Healing That Manages, Without A Trace Of Self-pity Or The Common Swagger Of The Battlefield Veteran.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Raising Lazarus is Dr. Robert Pensack's personal memoir of his battle to maintain his sanity in the face of extraordinary suffering.Dr. Pensack's story chronicles his near life-long struggle with a mortal illness, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, or HCM (formally known as IHSS), a genetic illness marked by abnormality of the heart muscle. After the disease claimed the life of his young mother, the adolescent Pensack--and his brother Richard, who also suffered from HCM--went on to become chronic-research heart patients at The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. They endured a litany of surgeries and multiple near-death experiences caused by cardiac arrests until, thirty years later, both received heart transplants that saved their lives. Remarkably--and coincidentally--Dr. Pensack played a vital role in the evolution of organ transplantation and in his own survival, helping to produce one of the anti-rejection drugs with which he himself was later treated at the time of his greatest need.From recounting his feeling of being condemned to an existence laden with insufferable burden to the hope restored through the ultimate gift of life, Raising Lazarus is Dr. Pensack's inspirational story of survival and triumph.'Extraordinary.A doctor's memoir of his struggle against his own illness.An intimate account of the remarkable medical advances of the last few decades from [a] unique point of view.'--New York Times Book Review.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Raising Lazarus | A Memoir | Robert Jon Pensack | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2005 | iUniverse | EAN 9780595349524 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…