Heart and Eye

程蕾蕾Shanghai Translation Publishing House · ChinaDec 2025

Rating 3.7
Word count
234K words
Chapters
10
ISBN
9787532798728

Tags

Medicine Clinical ExperienceHealth ManagementMedical HumanitiesDoctor-Patient CommunicationCardiovascularDisease PreventionDiagnostic ThinkingBody SignalsLife CareHealth Science

Summary

The prevalence of cardiovascular disease in China continues to rise. The number of people with cardiovascular disease is estimated at about 330 million. Cardiovascular disease ranks first in the composition of disease deaths among urban and rural residents. — China Cardiovascular Health and Disease Report 2023

Cardiovascular diseases are numerous and wide-ranging, affecting patients regardless of age or sex. These conditions involve a great deal of knowledge from medicine and other fields of science and technology. When doctors treat patients, the first thing they want is "seeing is believing." But disease always involves many confusing and interfering factors, and a slight error can lead to a huge mistake. At such moments, one must absolutely not treat the disease in isolation; one must go to see, to listen, to comfort, and to earn trust, rather than simply believing what the eyes see. Treating patients often requires going beyond "seeing is believing."

Using life stories from inside and outside the hospital, this book tells of the issues of greatest concern in everyday medical practice, including coronary heart disease, hypertension, aortic dissection, premature beats, and pacemaker implantation.

Editor's review

The virtue of this book is that it does not reduce cardiovascular disease to a cold test report; instead, through life stories from inside and outside the hospital, it restores professional terms such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, aortic dissection, premature beats, and pacemaker implantation to the concrete circumstances being experienced by a person and a family. The author, Cheng Leilei, combines clinical experience with narrative patience: her pages contain both the judgments and hesitations of doctors facing complex conditions and the anxiety, misunderstandings, and choices of patients and families outside the consultation room. The book repeatedly touches on a core proposition: treating patients cannot stop at "seeing is believing"; beyond images and data there are also listening, comfort, and trust. For general readers, it helps build basic awareness of cardiovascular disease and understand why doctors sometimes cannot treat the disease in isolation; for medical students and young doctors, it is a gentle reminder about clinical thinking and doctor-patient communication. It suits slow reading on a quiet evening, and also works for browsing before or after accompanying a family member to a medical appointment.

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Reading tips

  1. Read by disease type: when reaching chapters on coronary heart disease or hypertension, take notes in light of your family's situation.
  2. When you reach points where a doctor's judgment conflicts with a patient's feelings, pause and consider the differences in their circumstances.
  3. Before accompanying a family member to an appointment, read the relevant stories to help understand why doctors repeatedly ask about details.
  4. After reading, compile the warning signs mentioned in the book into a family health reminder list.

About the publisher

Shanghai Translation Publishing House China · Founded in 1978

Shanghai Translation Publishing House is a Chinese publisher oriented mainly toward translation and publishing. Its publications cover foreign literature, world classics and classic works, as well as social culture, folk literature and classical poetry. The database contains 2,618 titles, including Never Let Me Go, Les Misérables (2 volumes), Don Quixote (illustrated collector's edition), The Complete Comedies of Molière (4 volumes), The Complete Novels of Kafka (3 volumes), The Collected Works of Dostoevsky (9-volume set), Reason and Persons, and Oedipus Rex (Translation Classics). Its author resources include foreign writers such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Victor Hugo, Cervantes and Molière, as well as translators such as Zheng Kelu, Sun Jiameng, Li Jianwu and Zhang Kun. The publisher has brands such as "Translation Classics Selections" and "Translation Documentary," and emphasizes translated works in foreign literature and the humanities and social sciences, while also publishing bilingual dictionaries and foreign-language educational books. Public information is limited; the above is based on the book information in the database.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 推荐序 眼见就为实吗？
  3. 自序 站在最高处的石头是星辰
  4. 第一章 风住尘香花已尽（上）
  5. 第一章 风住尘香花已尽（下）
  6. 第二章 物是人非事事休
  7. 第三章 峰回路转酬劳客
  8. 第四章 曾是惊鸿照影来
  9. 附录 科幻小说 往日重现
  10. 索引

FAQ

Is this book suitable for general readers with no medical background? Yes. The book unfolds through life stories from inside and outside the hospital, with professional terms appearing naturally in the narrative; the author does not assume readers have a medical background. General readers can treat it as an introductory book for understanding cardiovascular disease and doctor-patient relationships, and need not memorize knowledge points as they would a textbook.
Which cardiovascular diseases does the book mainly cover? According to the materials, the book covers issues of greatest concern in everyday medical practice, including coronary heart disease, hypertension, aortic dissection, premature beats, and pacemaker implantation. Through stories about these conditions, the author discusses how doctors face confusing and interfering factors and why treating patients requires going beyond "seeing is believing."
Can reading this book replace consulting a doctor at a hospital? No. This is a narrative medical book that helps readers understand disease and the diagnostic process; it does not provide individualized diagnosis or medication advice. When you feel unwell or need to adjust a treatment plan, you should still go to a regular medical institution and let a doctor make a judgment based on examination results.
What value does this book offer to doctor readers? The book repeatedly presents the process by which doctors listen, comfort, and earn trust beyond images and data, which offers reference value for young doctors in understanding the complexity of clinical thinking and reflecting on doctor-patient communication. It is not a technical manual but a mirror reflecting human relationships in diagnosis and treatment.

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About the author

程蕾蕾 Author

Cheng Leilei is a Chinese author whose works are commonly classified under medicine. Publicly available information about her is limited, and details such as her personal background, nationality, and dates of birth and death have not been clearly recorded. Judging from the three works in the collection—Heart·Eye, A Few Heartfelt Words 3, and I Manage Patents at Zhongshan—her writing revolves around medicine and medical practice, touching on specific topics such as clinical observation, doctor-patient communication, and patent management in a hospital setting. This suggests an approach that combines professional medical content with everyday experience. The titles tend to be colloquial and reader-friendly, as expressions like “a few heartfelt words” imply a亲切 and practical style of narration rather than dense academic exposition. Because materials such as the author's biography and statements about her writing are lacking, it is not yet possible to make a more specific judgment about her writing career and influence; readers may instead turn to the above works to understand her areas of focus.