Title: "Guide" is very misleading"
Product review: This book is not a Guide in the sense of offering objective guidelines for the process of getting through -- and recovering from -- open heart-surgery. As an open-heart surgery survivor and thriver (summer 2003), in my opinion the book is a dismal account of one man's unique experience exacerbated by depressive illness that he was battling at least a year before his surgery. My concern is that his account is so negative as to dissuade a heart patient from chosing bypass surgery when indicated. That would be regrettable. Having talked to numerous open-heart surgery patients, clearly the majority of us benefit enormously from the miracle of open-heart operations.
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