At the heart of medicine : essays on the practice of surgery and surgical education / by David C. Sabiston, Jr. ; edited and with an introduction and epilogue by Barton F. Haynes.

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2006], ©2006.

xv, 373 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Compilation of previously published essays by David Sabiston.

David Sabiston on David Sabiston -- Taking care of business -- The Duke University Medical Center -- Deryl Hart: leader in the development of the Duke University Medical Center -- The Department of Surgery of the Duke University Medical Center -- Major contributions to surgery from the south -- The first hundred years: annals of surgery and a century of progress -- Surgeons and the Nobel prize -- Frederich Trendelenburg -- Allen O. Whipple -- Alfred Blalock -- Henry T. Bahnson -- Medicine as a career -- A continuum in surgical education -- The training of academic surgeons for the future : the challenge and the dilemma -- The effect of the three-year medical school curriculum on undergraduate surgical education: a professor's point of view -- The surgical medical student curriculum at Duke -- Specialization in surgery -- The University teaching hospital -- The coronary circulation -- Coronary endarterectomy -- Observation on the coronary circulation, with tributes to my teachers -- Effect of cardiac contraction on coronary blood flow -- The direction of blood flow in anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery -- Coronary arteriography in the selection of patients for surgery -- The diminishing mortality of coronary artery bypass grafting for myocardial ischemia -- Radionuclide angiocardiography in the diagnosis of congenital heart disorders -- The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism by radioisotope scanning -- Diagnosis of massive pulmonary embolism in man by radioisotope scanning : First report of use of urokinase to treat pulmonary embolism -- The pathophysiology of pulmonary embolism: relationships to accurate diagnosis and choice of therapy -- Radioactive ventilation scanning in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism -- Professional liability in surgery: problems and solutions -- The antivivisection movement : a threat to medical research and future progress -- National health insurance.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-368) and index.