How to handle heart disease with Samer Nashef

Published: Dec. 23, 2022, 9:31 a.m.

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Do Diet Coke and salt cause heart disease? How do you transport a heart to be transplanted? How can you learn to live with angina? In this month\'s talk, we hear from world-renowned cardiac surgeon Samer Nashef. Samer discusses his book, \\u2018The Angina Monologues: Stories of Surgery for Broken Hearts\\u2019, with journalist Sathnam Sanghera.

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Together they explore a collection of Samer\\u2019s stories that are sure to get your heart racing \\u2013 from driving a donor heart up the motorway to Samer\'s personal experience with angina.

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This talk was recorded from our theatre at the Royal Institution on 8 May 2019.

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Produced by: Lia Hale

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Music by: Joseph Sandy

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Thumbnail image credit: Fran Malley via Scribe Publications

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