Become the CEO of your own heart health.

This is a very valuable, impressively well-researched book. Steve Kaplan takes readers through a genuine deep dive into the pathophysiology of coronary disease and the therapies now available to treat it, material that is both credible and remarkably understandable for a lay audience. I've spent much of my career in cardiovascular medicine thinking about the ethics of intervention, not just whether a device or procedure can help, but what is best for true long-term benefit. Steve applies that same rigor and discipline to his own medical journey. It's a rare and valuable thing: a patient who did the ethical reasoning most of us wish every physician would embrace, and every patient could do.

I put stents in for a living, and I still think every cardiologist should read this book. Steve Kaplan didn't reject the cath lab, he did the work most patients never do: he separated anatomy from physiology, chased down the functional data, and walked into every consult prepared enough to change the conversation. The real story here isn't one man's decision to decline a procedure; it's a repeatable process showing what AI, advanced imaging, and an engaged clinician can accomplish together that none of them can alone. Stents save lives in the right patient. This book is about doing the work to find out whether you're that patient before anyone opens the tray.

The future of cardiovascular care has always depended on the marriage of engineering and medicine, better tools, better data, better decisions. This book applies that same principle to the patient's side of the table, showing what happens when a person combines rigorous data, imaging, and AI-assisted reasoning to genuinely understand his own disease. A thoughtful case for where the democratization of data, knowledge and intelligence for personalized decision process is here today.