An inspiring, surprising, sometimes shocking, and ultimately deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes, high-pressured life of a female heart surgeon. Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of the few female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group—those surgeons specially trained to perform heart transplants. Heart Matters is the story of the making of a surgeon who is also a wife and mother. In this powerful and moving memoir, Dr. Magliato takes us into her highly demanding, physically intense, male-dominated world and shows us how she masterfully works to save patients' lives every day, while also maintaining balance at home. Heart Matters is also a wake-up call to all women about their number one killer - heart disease - and explains how to avoid becoming a victim. Magliato offers a vivid behind-the-scenes view of what really goes on in an operating room and the real-life drama that occurs there. She shows the passion and commitment between patient and doctor, revealing that, at the end of a long day, it's our hearts that matter most.

"This is a wonderful book--beautifully written, deeply moving, and philosophically well argued. I loved it."—Nel Noddings, author of Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education "This book gives us something all too rare in contemporary philosophical writing: a passionate, careful, deeply sympathetic and sustained analysis of some important literary narratives in aid of a clearly defined philosophical project. Whether one agrees with Cunningham's conclusions or not, his treatment of the texts is inspiring and illuminating."—Lawrence C. Becker, author of A New Stoicism

When your life is in crisis, it wont last forever.

An inspiring, surprising, and deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes life of a female heart surgeon.

Heart Matters

Adrienne Clarkson grew up in Ottawa after her family escaped Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in 1942. Decades later, she would become Canada’s 26th governor general. Clarkson reached out to Canadians everywhere, refashioning Rideau Hall into a real home and welcoming the public. Her determination to invest meaning in her official actions created controversy, and in her memoir, Clarkson reflects on the behind-the-scenes political machinations. Heart Matters is more than a public life remembered—it chronicles an astonishing journey through triumph and turmoil. Remarkably insightful and inspiring, it is an extraordinary work by an extraordinary Canadian.

WHAT ONE WILL LEARN FROM THIS BOOK? This Prayer Manual:Your Heart Matters book is about the Heart God is seeking for and knowing how to pray with our weapon of warfare. It takes you through a journey of the different faucet of prayer using our God given weapons to defeat the defeated foe. One will know when he or she allows God, the Master Physician to operate on you, what beauty the Heart can become when it is free from unforgiveness and every other spirit that attaches to it. It is God’s joy to see his heart in you once you allow him to rein; He says David is a man after his Heart and you can be a woman or man after God’s Heart. • It is for those who hearts hurt and the beauty that God allows to come out of it • It is for those who are healed and not whole • It is for those who ready to be broken for the Call • The forces after The Call and then healed in the midst of it all • It for those who holding on to Unforgiveness which can brings on spiritual massive heart attack • It is for those who want to be in fellowship with God not be a fellow with Him