Healing Hearts

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of the few female heart surgeons practicing in the world today, and she is also a member of an even more exclusive group-surgeons specially trained to perform heart transplants. In Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon she describes working in an intense, male-dominated field and explains the day-to-day realities of her life, juggling family her demanding work.

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