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• Change of Heart: The Bypass Experience
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      --What the critics say
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• Breast Cancer: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis
      --About
      --What the critics say
      --Purchasing information
• Genetics for the Non-Geneticist Physician
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Change of Heart: The Bypass Experience
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich - Hardcover; Harper - Paperback)

About Change of Heart: The Bypass Experience:
For the millions of men and women who face Bypass surgery, who have undergone it, or who know in their hearts that they are slated to become Bypass veterans, CHANGE OF HEART may easily be the most important book they ever read.  More than 21 million Americans (!) struggle with coronary artery disease.  Even more have the disease and don't know it.  With all the advances in medicine, heart disease is still our Number One Killer and disabler.

Coronary heart disease is a growing problem.  For example, 1,263,000 men and 915,000 women with coronary heart disease were discharged from hospitals in 1998.  From 1979 to 1998, these discharges increased about 25 percent for men and 26 percent for women.

One of our most powerful weapons in our battle against heart disease is Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (CABG).  In 1999 alone, the American Heart Association reports that 571,000 Americans had Bypass surgery.  Bypass ranks high among the most common operations performed in the world and accounts for more resources expended in cardiovascular medicine than any other single procedure. 

In CHANGE OF HEART, Bypassers speak to Bypassers about what it was like for them.  In these 21 intimate, dramatically moving studies gleaned from 1100 interviews with Bypassers from all over this land, men and women from 24 to 74, a salesman, a physician, an editor, a headmaster, a housewife, a gem dealer, the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, a nun, a clerk, an engineer, tell their stories.  They talk about how their own lives led them to heart surgery, how they were prepared—or not prepared—for the operation, how they got through it, what helped most and what hindered most, what they wish they had known, what they wish others might have done for them.  In this support group between covers, these Bypass veterans examine the ways that the operation improved their lives, changed their hearts in their everyday relationships, or didn’t change their hearts as they thought it would. 

As one critic comments, “To CHANGE OF HEART, Nancy Yanes-Hoffman has brought her consummate skill as an experienced medical writer-editor and compassionate interviewer….Working in the personal, poignant style of the best oral histories, she has fashioned a book that is required reading not only for Bypassers—past, present, and future—their families, and loved one, but also for those who seek to learn how others meet crises and emerge triumphant.  With vast implications, this is the Bypass experience.”

Dr. Denton Cooley, Surgeon-in-Chief, Texas Heart Institute, asks, “Why is it that people know so little about a subject that affects so many?  For one reason, individuals complacently believe that knowledge about their disease is the responsibility of their physician and that all knowledge will be provided by them…Another reason may be that reliable sources of information are unavailable.   Nancy Yanes Hoffman’s CHANGE OF HEART is a view of the disease from inside—from the patient’s perspective.  The book includes valuable guidelines for those approaching bypass, provides insight for those undergoing bypass, and imparts a spirit of camaraderie for previous ‘bypassers.’”

Dr. Meyer Friedman, the “Type A personality” pioneer, adds, “…as a cardiologist, a coronary patient, and a ‘Bypasser’ myself, I can’t think of one postoperative circumstance, event, reaction or complication that isn’t described in her book….It is a book every cardiologist and cardiac surgeon would be well advised to read and ponder upon.”

Jim Lehrer, from the NPR Lehrer NewsHour, sums it all up: “I recommend CHANGE OF HEART to all who have a need or desire to know what it is like to endure Bypass surgery.  It’s all there from the only point of view that really matters—the patient’s.”

What the critics say about Change of Heart: The Bypass Experience:
For the millions who face Bypass surgery, have undergone it, or are heading toward it, this may easily be the most important book they will ever read. More than four and a half million Americans have coronary artery disease, and it exacts a savage toll. It is by far the leading cause of death in this nation....

To Change of Heart, Nancy Yanes-Hoffman has brought her consummate skill as an experienced medical writer-editor and compassionate interviewer. Working in the personal, poignant style of the best oral histories, she has fashioned a book that is required reading not only for Bypassers - past, present, and future - their families, and loved ones, but also for those who seek to learn how others meet crises and emerge triumphant.

"I recommend Change of Heart to all who have a need or desire to know what it is like to endure Bypass surgery. It's all there from the only point of view that really matters - the patient's."

Jim Lehrer
The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour

"This book is overdue and needed for patients who are to undergo the most common operation today: coronary artery bypass. The information presented will not only help relieve many unnecessary fears, but communicates to the patient how to prepare for, and recuperate from, the operation in order to obtain maximum benefit."

John Ochsner, M.D., Chairman, Department of Surgery,
Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, Louisiana.

"It is a book that every cardiologist and cardiac surgeon would be well advised to read and ponder upon."

Meyer Friedman, M.D., Meyer Friedman Institute,
Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center,
San Francisco, California

Nancy Yanes-Hoffman's Change of Heart: The Bypass Experience is a view of the disease from inside - from the patients' perspective... The book includes valuable guidelines for those approaching bypass, provides insight for those undergoing bypass, and imparts a spirit of camaraderie for previous 'bypassers.'"

Denton A. Cooley, M.D., Surgeon-in-Chief
Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas

Purchasing information for Change of Heart: The Bypass Experience:
Hardcover available from the author for $7.00 plus postage.

Breast Cancer: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis
(with WW Logan-Young, M.D.)
(Mt. Hope Publishing, New York, 1995)

What the critics say about Breast Cancer: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis:
"The most complete guide ever published to running a breast clinic successfully .
Helpful for diagnosticians specializing in breast imaging, general radiologists, and referring physicians."

"...a splendid achievement...reasonably priced and beautifully produced... eminently readable with excellent illustrations...this series of books on mammography will definitely be the Bible of mammography. Go out and buy it today."

 Audrey Caine, M.D., Radiology

"Having Nancy Yanes-Hoffman, a medical writer, as co-author has contributed much to the organization, clarity, interest, and enjoyment of the text...This book should be read by every radiologist who practices breast imaging. It will also be invaluable to gynecologists, family practitioners, surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, and other professionals who care for patients with breast disease."

Stephen A. Feig , M.D.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute 88:683-684, May 15, 1996

Purchasing information for Breast Cancer: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis:

Tess Wade, Mgr                                                                                                                           Mt Hope Publishing,                                                                                                                         170 Sawgrass Drive,                                                                                                              Rochester, New York14620                                                                                                                                       585/442-8969

Genetics for the Non-Geneticist Physician                                                          ReMedica Publishing, London, UK,

Purchasing information for Genetics for the Non-Geneticist Physician:
This publication is not yet in print.  For further information, contact                                           Andrew Ward,                                                                                                                               ReMedica Publishing, Books Division
RemedicaPublishing Limited
32-38 Osnaburgh Street
London NW1 3ND, UK                                                                                                                  Tel: +44 207 388 7677
Fax: +44 207 388 7457

Email: books@remedica.com

Sample Medical Articles (please see Notes Regarding Publication):
Menopause on the Line, Pathways, Feb., 2002.

Chronic Kidney Failure, American J Managed Care, Feb, 2002.

Patients’ Stories as Narrative, JAMA 287:447-448, Jan.23-30, 2002.

Cardiac Output, American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) Training Program,
May, 2001.

Graft Versus Tumor Responses in Renal Carcinoma, Cancer Journal of Scientific American,
May, 2000

Directional Vacuum-Assisted (VAB) Biopsy of Nonpalpable Breast Lesions: The Kaiser-Permanente Experience, with Daniel Chang and Charles R. Williams, III (in press).

The Buck Stops Here, New Engl J Med., Jan, 1999.

Brain Tumors, Intellihealth Cancer Zone, 1997.

Keeping Your Breasts Healthy, Wellness, July, 1996.

Obtaining Previous Mammograms for Comparison (with W.W.Logan) AJR, 166: 989, 1996.

Telling the Patient her Mammographic Results (with W.W.Logan-Young), AJR, 164:4-5, 1995.

Core-Biopsy Would Save One Billion Dollars a Year (with W.W.Logan-Young), Diagnostic Imaging, 16:5,1994.

When the Patient Asks for the Results of Her Mammogram, How Should the Radiologist Reply? AJR, 162:597-599, March, 1994.

Appropriate Role of Core Biopsy in the Management of Probably Benign Lesions (with W.W.
Logan-Young), Radiology, 190:313-314, Feb., 1994.

Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology (with W.W.Logan-Young), in Current Practice in Radiology. ed.
J.H.Thrall, Boston, 1993.

The Breast Cancer Screening Controversy Continues (with W.W.Logan-Young), Ann. Int. Med.,
118:746-747,May, 1993.

Evaluation of a Breast Mass (with W.W.Logan-Young), New Engl. J Med, 328 (11):811, March, 1993.

Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology in the Detection of Breast Cancer in Nonsuspicious Lesions, (with
W.W. Logan-Young), Clinical Digest Series, 1992.

Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology in the Detection of Breast Cancer in Nonsuspicious Lesions, (with
W.W. Logan-Young), Radiology, 184:49-53, July, 1992.

Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology: A Valuable but Neglected Procedure for Detecting Breast Cancer,
(with W.W. Logan-Young), Radiological Society of North America, 1990.

Diabetic Fibrous Breast Disease (with W.W. Logan-Young), Radiology, 172:667-670,1989.

Rights, Roles, and Relationships in Radiology, Radiology, 167:580-581, 1988.

Meyer Friedman: Type A Behavior Cardiovascular Research Continues, JAMA, 252(11): 1385-1387, 1391-1393, 1984.

John Talbott, M.D.: Editor and Innovator, JAMA, 249(19):2606-2607, 1983.

Edith Potter, Pioneering Infant Pathology, JAMA, 248(13):1551-1553, 1982.

Robert M. Zollinger, Ohio’s Natural Hormone, JAMA, 246(23):2669-75,1981.

Howard Rusk, M.D.: An Equal Chance, JAMA, 246(14):1503-1510, 1981.

Page’s Pages: Irvine Page at Hyannisport, JAMA, 1980.

His Heart Belongs to New Orleans: John Ochsner and Cardiovascular Surgery, JAMA, 1980.

Dr. Riddick: The Southern Thoroughbred with the Winning Ways, JAMA, 1980.

Fingering the Finger: Franz Joseph Ingelfinger’s Many Lives, JAMA, 243(5):409-411, 414, 1980.

J. Englebert Dunphy, M.D.: Humor and Healing, JAMA, 242(11):1122-1128.

Minnesota Maverick: Owen Wangensteen, JAMA, 241(11):1090-1095.1979.’

The Tall Mississippian: Merrill Odom Hines, Jackson, May, 1979.

Alton Ochsner: 82 and Still Going Strong, JAMA, 240(8): August 25, 1978.

Agatha Christie and A. Conan Doyle, J Popular Culture, 1978.

Katharine Boucot-Sturgis, The Kat with Nine Lives, JAMA, 238(22):2342-2345.

Priscilla White: Still an Optimist, JAMA, Sept.19, 1977.

Priscilla White: Faith in Children, Tufts Med.Sch Bull., 1977.

Materia Medica: Doctors as Writers, Critic, 1977.

Dr. Taussig Recalls Hard Road to Success, JAMA, 236(6):543, 547-548.

Nonagenarian Nobelist at his School’s 50th Birthday, JAMA, 233(8):851-853.

Getting into Life and Death with the Short Story, CEA Critic, XXXIX, 1977.

Adam Couldn’t Follow Doctor’s Orders, Medical Times, 1977.

Franz Kafka-His Father’s Son, A Study in Literary Sexuality, JAMA, 229:1623-1626,

The Doctor in the Detective Story, JAMA, 224(1):74-77.

The Doctor as Scapegoat in the Modern American Novel, JAMA, 220(1):58-61.

Notes Regarding Publications:
The complete list of publications contains over 85 medical, popular, and scholarly monographs and
articles; medical interviews and interview-essays about physicians and their lives; technical-medical
articles for peer-reviewed journals; trade books about medical problems for patients; textbooks for
physicians and health-care monographs; guidebooks for pharmaceutical houses to write more clearly and persuasively; blueprints for medical specialists to write clearer reports to referring physicians; educational and motivational patient materials for coping with disease and adhering to advice; book reviews and non-medical, popular review-essays; strategic counseling manuals for physicians and staff on patient satisfaction and customer service. BUT since the many articles and monographs written for pharmaceutical houses were contractually confidential, they must be omitted. These works cover the gamut of medical problems and include:

ADHD, alternative and complementary medicine, bypass surgery, benign and malignant breast diseases, brain tumors and CNS neoplasms, breast augmentation, breast reconstruction, core biopsies, cardiovascular disease, coronary artery disease, coronary bypass surgery, pericarditis, cleft palates, diabetes, genetic counseling, geriatrics and gerontology, hypertension, incontinence, patient safety, iatrogenic errors, benign and malignant prostate disease, epididymitis, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, pain management and palliative care, prostate care retinal disorders, retinal diseases, glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, women’s health, hormone replacement therapy, pregnancy and fertility, perimenopausal and menopausal conditions, women’s heart disease, new parts for old.

Selected Previous International and National Lectures: