its like ilichÉ and have heard that before, but i feel like i have lived it.i continue to live it all the time. >> in the book, you describe with the main character, that he actually put his hands around the heart and massaged the heart with the chest cavity open. how many times have you done something like that? >> every time we do a case. >> explain how that works. >> it depends what you are doing it. almost any heart surgery, you have to manipulate the heart as the surgeon. whether you're during a coronary artery bypass graft were transplanting the heart, we have to remove it from the patient and we put it back in and implanted. ant it.sn it sounds strange to say this but it is routine for us to do that. i remember the first time that i had to handle the heart. i was very afraid. with extreme trepidation was how i was manipulating it. i was scared to touch it because i felt like this was it. this was the engine of life. i am very biased, by the way because of what i do. i felt like this with the engine of life, you can't touch it, you can't manipulate it. t