num_pages: 220
description: Guardians of the Heart is an emotion-packed novel written about open-heart surgery by an open-heart surgery survivor. Guardians is an elegant blending of realism that only a survivor of life-and-death surgery can imagine and articulate with fictional accounts of ordinary people struggling under extraordinary circumstances. The complexities involved in deciding the difficult issues of whether or not to have the surgery, deciding an unconscious loved one's fate, advance directives, and Do Not Resuscitate (DNR's) orders are dramatically introduced throughout the novel. An additional dynamic is the problems of the current U.S. health care delivery system, and how it affects people who need life-saving surgeries. The reader will also be drawn into the passionate efforts of a few dedicated healthcare professionals who take an active stance in making health care more affordable for everyone in the United States.
language: English
title: Guardians of the Heart
titlecomplete: Guardians of the Heart
publisher: PublishAmerica