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David Alfery is a cardiac anesthesiologist and author of Saving Grace: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between.

Emotional journey: An inspiring tale from the operating room in Nicaragua

David Alfery, MD
Conditions
June 10, 2023

An excerpt from Saving Grace: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between.

On the morning of the first day of surgery in Nicaragua, I paced. It was 8:10 a.m., and the cases were supposed to begin at 7:30 a.m. …

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Emotional journey: An inspiring tale from the operating room in Nicaragua

Falling in love with the heart

David Alfery, MD
Physician
October 26, 2022

An excerpt from Saving Grace: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between.

In my third year at LSU Medical School, we dove headfirst into full-time patient care, taking required nine-week rotations on internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and general surgery. In the fourth year …

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Falling in love with the heart

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