BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//github.com/rianjs/ical.net//NONSGML ical.net 4.0//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Mimi Swartz Executive Editor Texas Monthly Author - Ticker Thu rsday August 20\, 2020 11:30 am - 1:00 pm CLICK HERE ----> Join Virtual M eeting <---- CLICK HERE Ticker “Smart\, compelling\, and completely engag ing\, Ticker is a story about science\, personality\, innovation\, and ob session\, all in pursuit of a staggering accomplishment\, the creation of an artificial heart. Mimi Swartz drives the narrative with great style a nd deep reporting\; it's a book anyone with a heart will love.” It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon\, shou ldn’t the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart ? In Ticker\, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazi ne Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult it can b e to replicate one of nature’s greatest creations. Part investigative jou rnalism\, part medical mystery\, Ticker is a dazzling story of modern inn ovation\, recounting fifty years of false starts\, abysmal failures and m iraculous triumphs\, as experienced by one the world’s foremost heart sur geons\, O.H. “Bud” Frazier\, who has given his life to saving the un-sava ble. His journey takes him from a small town in west Texas to one of th e country’s most prestigious medical institutions\, The Texas Heart Insti tute\, from the halls of Congress to the animal laboratories where calves are fitted with new heart designs. The roadblocks to success —medical se tbacks\, technological shortcomings\, government regulations – are immens e. Still\, Bud and his associates persist\, finding inspiration in the un likeliest of places. A field beside the Nile irrigated by an Archimedes s crew. A hardware store in Brisbane\, Australia. A seedy bar on the wrong side of Houston. Until post WWII\, heart surgery did not exist. Ticker pr ovides a riveting history of the pioneers who gave their all to the coura geous process of cutting into the only organ humans cannot live without. Heart surgeons Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley\, whose feud dominated t he dramatic beginnings of heart surgery. Christian Barnaard\, who changed the world overnight by performing the first heart transplant. Inventor R obert Jarvik\, whose artificial heart made patient Barney Clark a worldwi de symbol of both the brilliant promise of technology and the devastating evils of experimentation run amuck. Rich in supporting players\, Ticker introduces us to Bud’s brilliant colleagues in his quixotic quest to deve lop an artificial heart: Billy Cohn\, the heart surgeon and inventor who devotes his spare time to the pursuit of magic and music\; Daniel Timms\, the Brisbane biomedical engineer whose design of a lightweight\, pulsele ss heart with but a single moving part offers a new way forward. And\, a s government money dries up\, the unlikeliest of backers\, Houston’s furn iture king\, Mattress Mack. In a sweeping narrative of one man’s obsess ion\, Swartz raises some of the hardest questions of the human condition. What are the tradeoffs of medical progress? What is the cost\, in suff ering and resources\, of offering patients a few more months\, or years o f life? Must science do harm to do good? Ticker takes us on an unforgett able journey into the power and mystery of the human heart. Mimi Swartz M imi Swartz\, the author\, with Sherron Watkins\, of Power Failure\, The I nside Story of the Collapse of Enron\, is an executive editor of Texas Mo nthly. Previously\, she was a staff writer at Talk\, from April 1999 to A pril 2001\, and a staff writer at the New Yorker from 1997 to 2001. Prior to joining the New Yorker\, she worked at Texas Monthly for thirteen yea rs. In 1996 Swartz was a finalist for two National Magazine Awards and wo n in the public interest category for “Not What the Doctor Ordered.” She was also a National Magazine Award finalist for her November 2005 issue s tory on tort reform\, titled “Hurt? Injured? Need a Lawyer? Too Bad!” and won the 2006 John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest\, Magazine Jo urnalism\, for the same story. In 2013 she won her second National Magazi ne Award (again in the category of public interest)\, for “Mothers\, Sist ers\, Daughters\, Wives\,” a compelling look at the state of women's heal th care in Texas. Over the years\, Swartz’s work has appeared in Vanity Fair\, Esquire\, Slate\, National Geographic\, and the New York Times’ op -ed page and Sunday magazine. It has also been collected in Best American Political Writing 2006 and Best American Sportswriting 2007. She has bee n a member of the Texas Institute of Letters since 1994. Swartz grew up i n San Antonio and graduated from Hampshire College\, in Amherst\, Massach usetts. She now lives in Houston with her husband\, John Wilburn\, and so n\, Sam. DTEND:20200820T180000Z DTSTAMP:20240329T085439Z DTSTART:20200820T163000Z LOCATION:Virtual SEQUENCE:1 SUMMARY:Mimi Swartz - Author at Texas Monthly UID:e044ad54-4372-4e8d-92f1-1f3836d22e1d X-ALT-DESC:
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\n\n&ldquo\;Smart\, compelling\, and c ompletely engaging\, \;Ticker \;is a story about science\, personality\, innovation\, and obsession\, all in pursuit of a staggering accomplishment\, the creation of an artificial heart. \;< strong>Mimi Swartz \;drives the narrative with great style a nd deep reporting\; it'\;s a \;book \;anyone with a heart will love.&rdquo\;
\n\nIt wasn&rsquo\;t s upposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon\, should n&rsquo\;t the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In \;Ticker\, \;Texas Monthly \;exec utive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz show s just how complex and difficult it can be to replicate one of nature&rsq uo\;s greatest creations.
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\nPart investigative j
ournalism\, part medical mystery\, \;Ticker \;is a dazzl
ing story of modern innovation\, recounting fifty years of false starts\,
abysmal failures and miraculous triumphs\, as experienced by one the wor
ld&rsquo\;s foremost heart surgeons\, O.H. &ldquo\;Bud&rdquo\; Frazier\,
who has given his life to saving the un-savable. \; \;
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\nHis journey takes him from a small town in \;west Texas to one o
f the country&rsquo\;s most prestigious medical institutions\, The Texas
Heart Institute\, from the halls of Congress to the animal laboratories w
here calves are fitted with new heart designs. \;The roadblocks to su
ccess &mdash\;medical setbacks\, technological shortcomings\, government
regulations &ndash\; are immense. Still\, Bud and his associates persist\
, finding inspiration in the unlikeliest of places. A field beside the Ni
le irrigated by an Archimedes screw. A hardware store in Brisbane\, Austr
alia. A seedy bar on the wrong side of Houston.
\n
\nUntil post
WWII\, heart surgery did not exist. \;Ticker \;provides
a riveting history of the pioneers who gave their all to the courageous
process of cutting into the only organ humans cannot live without. Heart
surgeons Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley\, whose feud dominated the dra
matic beginnings of heart surgery. Christian Barnaard\, who changed the w
orld overnight by performing the first heart transplant. \;Inventor R
obert Jarvik\, whose artificial heart made patient Barney Clark a worldwi
de symbol of both the brilliant promise of technology and the devastating
evils of experimentation run amuck.
\n
\nRich in supporting pl
ayers\, \;Ticker \;introduces us to Bud&rsquo\;s brillia
nt colleagues in his quixotic quest to develop an artificial heart: Billy
Cohn\, the heart surgeon and inventor who devotes his spare time to the
pursuit of magic and music\; Daniel Timms\, the Brisbane biomedical engin
eer whose design of a lightweight\, pulseless heart with but a single mov
ing part offers a new way forward. \; And\, as government money dries
up\, the unlikeliest of backers\, Houston&rsquo\;s furniture king\, Matt
ress Mack. \; \;
\n
\nIn a sweeping narrative of one ma
n&rsquo\;s obsession\, Swartz raises some of the hardest questions of the
human condition. What are the tradeoffs of medical progress? \; 
\; What is the cost\, in suffering and resources\, of offering patients a
few more months\, or years of life? Must science do harm to do good? &nb
sp\;Ticker \;takes us on an unforgettable journey into the p
ower and mystery of the human heart.
Mimi Swartz
\n\nMimi Swartz\, the author\, with Sherron Watkins\, of \ ;Power Failure\, The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron\,&nbs p\;is an executive editor of \;Texas Monthly. \;Previous ly\, she was a staff writer at \;Talk\, \;from April 199 9 to April 2001\, and a staff writer at the \;New Yorker&nbs p\;from 1997 to 2001. Prior to joining the \;New Yorker\,&nb sp\;she worked at \;Texas Monthly \;for thirteen years. In 1996 Swartz was a finalist for two National Magazine Awards and won in the public interest category for \;&ldquo\;Not What the Doctor Ordered.&r dquo\; \;She was also a National Magazine Award finalist for her November 2005 issue story on tort reform\, titled \;&ldquo\;Hur t? Injured? Need a Lawyer? Too Bad!&rdquo\; \;and won the 2006 Jo hn Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest\, Magazine Journalism\, for t he same story. In 2013 she won her second National Magazine Award (again in the category of public interest)\, for \;&ldquo\;Mothers\, Sist ers\, Daughters\, Wives\,&rdquo\; \;a compelling look at the stat e of women'\;s health care in Texas. \;
\n\nOver the years\, Swartz&rsquo\;s work has appeared in \;Vanity Fair\, Esquire\, S late\, National Geographic\, \;and the \;New York Times& rsquo\; \;op-ed page and Sunday magazine. It has also been colle cted in Best American Political Writing 2006 and Best American Sportswrit ing 2007. She has been a member of the Texas Institute of Letters since 1 994. Swartz grew up in San Antonio and graduated from Hampshire College\, in Amherst\, Massachusetts. She now lives in Houston with her husband\, John Wilburn\, and son\, Sam.
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