Heeeeere's Heimlich! -- My beginnings -- Happy times in Sing Sing prison -- Medical school challenges and a strange internship -- En route to China -- A health clinic in the Gobi desert -- A medical newbie searches for a surgical residency -- Saving a life and finding love -- Restoring the ability to swallow : the reversed gastric tube -- Operation -- Taking the reversed gastric tube operation behind the iron -- Curtain -- A boy named Hayani -- A promise to a dead soldier kept : the Heimlich chest drain -- Valve -- Saving the lives of choking victims : the Heimlich maneuver -- The American Red Cross and back blows -- The gift of breath : the Heimlich microtrach -- Challenging the medical establishment -- Working toward a caring world.