Jauhar hooks the reader of “Heart” in the first few pages by describing his own health scare - an exam showed obstruction in the main artery feeding his heart. The first, “Intern ,” was filled with uncertainty the second, “Doctored,” with disillusionment. The tone - a physician excited about his specialty - takes a sharp turn from his first two memoirs. His gripping new book, “Heart: A History,” had me nearly as enthralled with this pulsating body part as he seems to be. “In the end,” the doctor said, “cardiology is mostly a problem of plumbing.” I, on the other hand, always considered the heart a pump, much the way a doctor explained it to Sandeep Jauhar during his cardiology fellowship. When she and the stranger ultimately connect, it’s as if she’s recovered lost love. The liver, kidney and corneas were in other people, but she needed to be with the heart. In Richard Selzer’s fictional story “Whither Thou Goest,” a widow searches for the man who received her late husband’s heart. HEART A History By Sandeep Jauhar Illustrated.
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