Robert Pensack Md (9 results)

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.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 1st Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Top rear corner bumped causing bulge on about 1/4" of tip. D/j is lightly edge rubbed. Black cloth spine and edges with gold braid line design, tan boards. 315 pages.…

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: Good. Meets the good condition guidelines. Has wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; is a suspenseful and heart-wrenching story of a man's fight for survival after being hit by a car and left for deadLazarus is in a coma and his family is desperate to find a way to bring him back to life. They turn to Dr. Robert M.D. Pensack, a renowned specialist in brain death, for help. As they work to save Lazarus, they uncover the startling truth about his condition and his family's desperate fight to keep him alive.; 8vo; FSA.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition beige boards, black cloth spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments; Authors' Dedications; Foreword; Preliminary Page Quotes; Afterword and About the Authors. "Raising Lazarus is the rarest 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, to be both riveting as a story and profoundly encouraging to other threatened human beings: which is to say, almost everyone alive. I don't know of a man or woman who couldn't learn from it." -- Reynolds Price. "A haunting story of a man's struggle to survive . powerful." -- Kirkus Reviews. "Sometimes, illness is a conduit through which we redefine our lives. Such is the case for forty -four-year-old Robert Pensack. "Mortality, like love, is something that can come to be known only by way of experience. Through a lifetime, I have been in the process of dying," he reflects in his riveting and evocative memoir. Raising Lazarus is a portrait of life that signals one man's defiance of death, and his physical and emotional resurrection. Through the extremes of Bob Pensack's existence, we come to consider and value the true wonder of the ordinary in our own lives. At age four Pensack lost his mother to HCM, an enigmatic cardiac condition, and at age fifteen was himself diagnosed with the disease, which has hannted a bloodline for three generations. Raising Lazarus chronicles Pensack's journey to overcome his failing body through the will of his mind and the strength of his soul. In order to save himself, he determines to become a doctor -- and his own best patient. But after undergoing multiple surgeries in his twenties -- one of which leaves a hole in his heart -- Pensack realizes he cannot become a surgeon. The training is far too taxing physically, and he is in a constant struggle with incapacitating fear and debilitating emotional disorders that result from the many horrors he has endured. Probing for the foundation of his mental instabilities, Pensack becomes a psychiatrist and reveals the intertwining of mind and body. He eventually surmises that "physical injuries are mere flesh wounds; it is the psychological terror bred in my past that is most lethal." Finally, Pensack must have a heart transplant in order to survive, and thus begins his agonizing wait for a donor heart, followed by the unimaginable consequences, both physical and psychological, of such an ordeal. Through this barbaric feat of modern medicine -- and moreover through the strength and support of his wife and children, who have joined him in the passing years -- Pensack comes to see the universality of life: how we are all connected, why it matters, and what is our potential. While waiting for a donor heart for transplant, Pensack met the writer Dwight Arnan Williams. After hundreds of hours of interviews, and having accompanied Pensack into the operating room for the transplant surgery itself, Williams collaborated further with Pensack to compose the narrative that traces the heroic journey of a man confronting the frailty and the preciousness of life." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Robert Jon Pensack, M.D. is a general practitioner and psychiatrist. He lives with his wife and children in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Dwight Arnan Williams is the recipient of the 1989 Jovanovich Award for short fiction. He too lives in Steamboat Springs. McKeveny, Tom (jacket design); Lippman Marcia (jacket photograph); Proper, Ken (photographs of the authors) (illustrator).…