How to remove a piece of reinforcement from a child's chest? What to do if the bullet hit a blood vessel and is now heading towards the heart? How to resuscitate a pregnant woman with stab wounds so that both she and her child survive? When other doctors doubt it or not at all give up, Westaby boldly grabs a scalpel! Stephen Westaby is a famous cardiac surgeon, innovative researcher and courageous professional. It was he who urinated through the catheter into his shoe during the operation so as not to waste time. It was he who undertook to save the life of a dying motorcyclist when his jaw was broken. It was his patient who survived the longest with an artificial heart and ended up in the book of records. Westaby devoted his entire life to cardiac surgery - he always took on the most hopeless cases and worked miracles. In this book, he opens the reader to the operating room of the famous Harefield Hospital, a center of excellence for cardiac surgery in Birmingham (Alabama), where he enters into real battles with death itself. The author describes the most difficult cases from the practice of a heart surgeon, the difficult fate of patients and the general problems of the health care system that were revealed during the Covid-19 virus pandemic, which Stephen Westaby learned about in Wuhan even before , as the whole world identified him.