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“When you have my heart in your hand, could you please take the bitterness out of it?” This remarkable request addressed to a cardiac surgeon epitomizes some of the problems facing the heart patient since his view of surgery can be so different from ours. The request was not a metaphor, and when I asked him about it he looked puzzled and asked, “Where else would my bitterness be?!”
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R. S. Blacher, Open Heart Surgery — The Patient’s Point of View, Mt. Sinai J. Med 38:74 (1971)
R. S. Blacher, Heart Surgery: The Patient’s Experience in: “The Psychological Experience of Surgery,” R. S. Blacher, ed., John Wiley and Sons, New York (1987).
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Blacher, R.S. (1990). Fantasies Evoked by Cardiac Surgery. In: Willner, A.E., Rodewald, G. (eds) Impact of Cardiac Surgery on the Quality of Life. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0647-4_5
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