Title: Echoes of heartsounds
Description: When Lear is examined by a doctor the day after a seemingly minor medical episode, "the verdict is shocking. So begins an account, filled with grace, humor, and ferocity, of her harrowing journey to recovery, beset by mysterious complications. She finds herself in the same hospital--in the same coronary unit, being treated by the same cardiologist--where her late husband Hal was a staff doctor and then a patient before he died there. The past is inescapably present"--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Myocardial infarction, Patients, Health, Biography, Physicians, biography
People: Martha Weinman Lear