Publish Date |
March 21, 2017 |
Category |
Biography & Autobiography / Medical Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs |
Price |
$26.99 |
ISBN: 9781476765457
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: March 21, 2017
"A world-famous pediatric cardiologist tells how surviving a plane crash in the high Andes led to a lifelong commitment to helping children overcome congenital heart defects...Inspiring from beginning to end.""Canessa—who went on to became a world-renowned pediatric cardiologist at the Italian Hospital of Montevideo—now draws parallels between the life-altering decisions he made on the mountain and the hope he provides to desperate parents by performing lifesaving heart surgeries on newborn infants and fetuses in utero. In this inspirational book, he recounts in breathtaking detail his harrowing journey across a harsh, uninhabited region of the Andes with fellow crash survivor Fernando Parrado to find help...it makes for riveting reading."