The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center Book

I was excited to read this book when I first saw it on Amazon.com, but I have to say that it only held my interest up until the last half of it. The chapter where they started talking about money, finances, policy and all that other boring hospital management stuff that had nothing to do with heart surgery and heart anatomy in general, I debated whether or not to stop reading at that point but I hate abandoning a book before I even finish it so I chose to just barrel through it until the end. Of the first half of the book that I enjoyed, I really loved how detailed the surgery scenes were and the author's observations about the surgeons themselves and how they did things. It totally has inspired me for my own writing since one of my romance characters is a famous heart surgeon. I did a lot of highlighting in my book so I can note this stuff later for possible surgeon scenes I write about him. If you are interested in the mechanics of heart surgery or a cardiophile like me, I recommend just reading the first four chapters. But there is also a touching story about a little girl named Erika that is really worth reading too. And of course an appendix chapter detailing how the heart works as a structure. I'm glad I picked up this book. Just wish there was more in depth surgery chapters and less about politics, health care, money and policy statistics stuff.