tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post2439098153154950342..comments2024-02-05T01:55:53.566-08:00Comments on Gently Mad: Open Heart: A Caridac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table by Stephen WestabySharon Wilfonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17466621290140789056noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-40029386504437966532018-01-18T14:17:47.573-08:002018-01-18T14:17:47.573-08:00Hi Marica. Yeah, our "big" snowstorm. ...Hi Marica. Yeah, our "big" snowstorm. Compared to your neck of the woods it was not much but enough to bowl us over. I don't even own a shovel. The postman has had to tromp through the snow to get to my front door. :)Sharon Wilfonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17466621290140789056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-43219447522184990302018-01-18T13:39:07.938-08:002018-01-18T13:39:07.938-08:00This book sounds fascinating. I used to enjoy medi...This book sounds fascinating. I used to enjoy medical nonfiction at times. Although like you, I don't appreciate foul language every other word. Glad you got through your big snowstorm! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-25675808027976000862018-01-18T13:26:58.630-08:002018-01-18T13:26:58.630-08:00This book sounds fascinating. I used to enjoy medi...This book sounds fascinating. I used to enjoy medical nonfiction at times. Although, I'm with you on not appreciating foul language every other word. Glad you got through your big snowstorm! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-79840648255968351572018-01-18T12:02:31.190-08:002018-01-18T12:02:31.190-08:00Oh, and Westaby had retired when he wrote this boo...Oh, and Westaby had retired when he wrote this book. He's in his seventies.Sharon Wilfonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17466621290140789056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-55535868914505796892018-01-18T12:00:14.573-08:002018-01-18T12:00:14.573-08:00Hi Phyllis! So good to hear from you. You haven&...Hi Phyllis! So good to hear from you. You haven't commented in a while.<br /><br />It's reassuring to hear you say that. On Goodreads I got lambasted by two Englishmen who told me I was brainwashed by Republican ideology, stupid, backwards, uneducated and furthermore evil for believing in a system that promotes free enterprise. The one told me that he was not only unfriending me (they both unfriended me) but blocking me because he considered me dangerous.<br /><br />I did not know whether to be offended or flattered that they cared so much about my opinion.Sharon Wilfonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17466621290140789056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-61817451561397206402018-01-18T11:53:34.643-08:002018-01-18T11:53:34.643-08:00Hi Sharon, What in interesting book. I'm wonde...Hi Sharon, What in interesting book. I'm wondering how this fella had the time to write his book. I, too, have had very good experience with the health care here in America with my 91 year old mom. And when the VA was fixed recently by our new administration, Terry's 102 year old dad gets much better and quicker care. My friend, Ruth, in her 50's doesn't have a regular doc, so she went to the ER and had excellent and thorough care there. I have experienced the same when we had to take mom and Terry's dad to the ER. Medicare has taken care of the bills. America continues to be blessed by God in so many ways. We are still a Christian nation, and we must continue to honor God, read his word, and live accordingly. There is evidence that the UK is a dark, Godless place, (as their health care system shows)Phyllis Winnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15267232631003939638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-4705220550169136052018-01-18T11:50:56.675-08:002018-01-18T11:50:56.675-08:00Hi Carol. I think you will enjoy it. It is a fas...Hi Carol. I think you will enjoy it. It is a fascinating book. And Westaby is a fluid writer.Sharon Wilfonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17466621290140789056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-69726456585116080492018-01-18T06:34:22.188-08:002018-01-18T06:34:22.188-08:00I had entered a contest for this book and lost. Th...I had entered a contest for this book and lost. Thank you for the review. Will add it to my wish list.Carol N Wonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06873206816286352639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-48624515960104759042018-01-17T20:53:26.690-08:002018-01-17T20:53:26.690-08:00Mudpuddle, the book was extremely suspenseful and ...Mudpuddle, the book was extremely suspenseful and fast paced. <br /><br />As for my kidney stones. I hope I never go through that again. I thought I was going through kidney failure. I had a follow up this December and they took an x ray. They did not see anything thank goodness!Sharon Wilfonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17466621290140789056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-48216251721394736142018-01-17T20:21:28.365-08:002018-01-17T20:21:28.365-08:00the book sounded pretty exciting: hard to imagine...the book sounded pretty exciting: hard to imagine people who can do that kind of thing, surgery, i mean... and kidney stones!! that's terrible; i feel for anyone who has to go through that!... hope it's not a recurring issue...Mudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17194891656971454279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-88681642846483144372018-01-17T18:46:26.808-08:002018-01-17T18:46:26.808-08:00Ha! I understand. I used to live in New Jersey. ...Ha! I understand. I used to live in New Jersey. I loved it when we had a blizzard at night and got to stay home from school until they cleared the roads.<br /><br />I hated it when the blizzard happened while I was at work because then it took forever to get home. :(<br /><br />At least you have a nice, long spring. Ours lasts two weeks and then it's hot, hot, hot!Sharon Wilfonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17466621290140789056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-30659041273260490972018-01-17T18:43:38.487-08:002018-01-17T18:43:38.487-08:00Hi Brian you would definitely enjoy this book. I ...Hi Brian you would definitely enjoy this book. I know that our system needs a lot of improvement and I could write a dissertation on how I think it could be approved. I would not, however, want to go to a socialized system as in the UK. Even in our country those who receive government assistance through medicaid have less autonomy then those of us with private insurance.<br /><br />I will say I'm glad my mother is here. She has stage four cancer and receiving extremely expensive treatment that medicare pays for. She is 81 and no one is turning her away because of her age. She also has macular degeneration for which she receives monthly shots in the eye. She has good doctors, thank God.Sharon Wilfonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17466621290140789056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-64647726598627657112018-01-17T18:30:11.197-08:002018-01-17T18:30:11.197-08:00Hi Mudpuddle. I just happened to hear Zimlensky o...Hi Mudpuddle. I just happened to hear Zimlensky on the radio and liked it.<br /><br />I looked up Zimlensky's love life. He was fell in love with but was rejected by Alma Schindler who later married Gustav Mahler. Later he married Ida Guttman but it was an unhappy marriage. After her death he married Luise Sachel who was twenty-nine years younger than him but they were happy and that's what counts.<br /><br />I know what you mean about health care. I rarely go to the doctor but a trip to the ER for kidney stones paid off my deductible so I went and got all the other physicals out of the way as well. <br /><br />We do need more doctors and they need to not double and triple book their patients. I always bring a nice thick book with me to the medical clinic. I guess I can read just as easily in a waiting room as my sofa.Sharon Wilfonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17466621290140789056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-87340821196745057832018-01-17T16:21:06.087-08:002018-01-17T16:21:06.087-08:00Zimlensky i never heard of; i listened to a bit o...Zimlensky i never heard of; i listened to a bit of it: Tchaikowski's son-in-law, was he? very romantic... i don't know much about medicine, except that doctors seem like factory hands and insurance salesmen do the diagnoses... i've had to go to see someone twice in the last five years and both times i received the wrong diagnosis... too many people, too few doctors, and they're too rushed to do their job... it's a sad situation and one that could be corrected by right-thinking intelligent persons in the government... unfortunately...Mudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17194891656971454279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-6578417785649316312018-01-17T15:59:02.288-08:002018-01-17T15:59:02.288-08:00P.S. - Even though your snow was a bit wimpy I emp...P.S. - Even though your snow was a bit wimpy I empathize :) We have had a terribley cold winter here in NY. I cannot wait until spring. <br /><br />Have a great week! Brian Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139559400312336791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948826710613032587.post-62853766437638157882018-01-17T15:56:33.906-08:002018-01-17T15:56:33.906-08:00Though I have not read a medical book in years I ...Though I have not read a medical book in years I find this sort of thing fascinating. I think that I would enjoy this. No healthcare system is perfect, and I tend not to favor a purely socialized system like they have in The U.K. , but I think that the system that is operating in America is just plain harmful for way too many people. I think that in comparison to what we are doing, even very flawed systems look good. Brian Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139559400312336791noreply@blogger.com