Today, at an age when most people have long since retired, Yacoub is still pushing the boundaries of scientific understanding and surgical know-how. This story is also about science, the development of new medical techniques, and a deeper understanding of how the human body works. Among his patients are men and women who are still thriving more than thirty-five years after he gave them new hope. At London’s Harefield Hospital, he created the greatest heart transplant center in the world. He performed some of the first heart transplants in Britain and the first heart-lung transplants in Europe. Written with unprecedented access and drawing on extensive interviews and research, the biography recounts how Yacoub transformed the treatment of children with congenital heart disease. He was knighted in 1992, and in 2014, he was awarded the highest honor in the gift of the Queen, the Order of Merit. Although at times he clashed with the medical establishment in London, Yacoub pioneered great advances in heart surgery. Veteran journalists Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman follow the remarkable life of heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub from his formative years in Egypt, through spectacular success at Cairo University, to his long and distinguished career in Britain. The incredible life story of legendary cardiac surgeon and scientist Magdi Yacoub, an outsider who succeeded against the odds Sign up here to receive advance information.
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