
A gifted poet as well as a renowned cardiologist and medical professor, John Stone eloquently bridges the seeming expanse between science and the arts. In this wonderful collection of true stories, Stone fluently translates the language of cardiology into one we can all understand...


From the little blue baby with a heart murmur to those desperate patients who undergo heart transplants, In the Country of Hearts brings the world of medicine down to its all-too-human level and shows the two hearts that beat in all of us--the literal and the metaphorical. In...