Enter the Operating Room with Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Thomas Jay Berger by Anna Daugherty What is it like to stop a heart and duel with death in his own backyard with a human life at stake? Until now, only a cardiac surgeon could know. And only a surgeon like Dr. Thomas Jay Berger can take the reader not only into the operating room, but into the heart itself. Berger became a certified surgeon in 1981 and went on to become one of the most recognized cardiac surgeons in the nation. When his vision began to fail him, Berger began working on medical malpractice cases. His experiences have inspired his breakout novel, Dueling in Death’s Backyard. Dueling in Death’s Backyard follows Cooper Logan, a troubled youth in Boston, as he follows a wrestling scholarship to a surgical residency in Birmingham, Alabama, where he fit in like a Hell’s Angel at a British High Tea. He was more Clint Eastwood, as Rowdy Yates, than Richard Chamberlain, as Dr. Kildare, and everyone kept telling him he didn’t look like a doctor. Cooper was obsessed with becoming a cardiac surgeon -- stopping hearts and pitting his scalpel against Old Grim’s scythe right there in Death’s backyard. Most doctors spend their lives avoiding such situations. Only Cooper, and other cardiac surgeons, live to fight on that mystic battlefield for the life of every patient.
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