A Bedouine boy born at the edge of the Negev-Desert achieved to be educated at medical institutions who are among the best in the western hemisphere to become a known heart surgeon. Dr Numan Abu-Aishah, one of the earliest heart surgeons in the Middle East and the Arab world tells in great openness but also with some sense of humour about his 50 years of professional life, starting in West-Germany and continuing in his new homeland, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Telling about the tough years after the expulsion from Palestine, senses of achievement as a heart surgeon, difficult decisions and medical errors. A gripping book about the career of a heart surgeon.