Healing from the Heart A Leading Surgeon Combines Eastern and Western Traditions to Create the Medicine of the Future

Dr. Mehmet Oz, celebrated heart surgeon and co-founder of the Complementary Care Center at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, is spearheading the health care revolution that is yielding powerful new healing tools that will change the way we think about medicine-forever. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Oz describes his pioneering work combining cuttingedge Western medicine with such Eastern techniques as acupuncture, yoga, and chigong, as well as such controversial therapies as hypnosis, music, massage, reflexology, aromatherapy, and energy healing. For the first time, these "complementary" therapies are being systematically studied on his high-tech surgical unit-and patients are making real breakthroughs. Their inspiring and affecting stories are the heart of this book-from the extraordinary discipline of Frank Torre, who used his pro sports training to "psyche" himself into healing after heart-transplant surgery, to the "impossible" recovery of blues great Johnny Copeland, who was roused from a seemingly impenetrable coma through the force of his own music. In recounting his patients' experiences, Dr. Oz offers a blueprint for a radically innovative medicine for the new millennium, drawing the best from Eastern and Western therapies and empowering patients to become partners with doctors in promoting their own recovery.Oz, Mehmet C. is the author of 'Healing from the Heart A Leading Surgeon Combines Eastern and Western Traditions to Create the Medicine of the Future' with ISBN 9780452279551 and ISBN 0452279550.