max s. gerber(the latest shot)

every once in a while i get an email or a letter from a random stranger that just floors me. i got an email like that yesterday, from a woman named tara who is the mother of a 7 year old boy with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. she was nice enough to give me permission [...]

noted medical journal the lancet reviewed the hearts book in their august 23rd issue. the article was written by priya shetty, who was quite kind in her review. thanks, priya. my thanks also to lancet editor joanna palmer for kind permission to post a PDF of the review on the site.
read the full review here.
(reprinted [...]

jeni was nice enough to call me up and let me know she was having her pacemaker replaced, and was even nicer to let me tag along once again, camera in hand, just like the old days. except this time in addition to her parents and brother, i joined jeni’s husband, nick and a couple [...]

yep, that’s me on TV. and that’s really charlie rose. it’s not even a photoshop trick. we were in the same room, with tv cameras and everything.
thanks to everyone who emailed me about the appearance, and most especially thanks to all the heart parents who took time to write. hearing your stories is always [...]

well, after some delay it looks like the day has come: i’m going to be on TV tonight.
the segment i taped for the charlie rose show in april is airing tonight (wednesday, june 18th, 2008) on PBS. check your local listings. i’ll be hiding somewhere, cursing the fact that my head looks weird and my [...]

a few weeks ago dylan’s mother called me to say that everyone wanted to do an update to our mirror picture from 2001 that’s in the hearts book. it turns out dylan and his family were going to be visiting mario in camarillo on memorial day and we took that as a perfect opportunity to [...]

(click here to see the pics)
a couple weekends ago i got to haul myself over to the philadelphia airport marriott to attend the Adult Congenital Heart Association’s 2008 conference. while there i got to sign books and take pictures of the conference attendees. signing books is a weird thing. i never know quite what [...]

i just got back from a very stressful week in new york. stressful because of random scheduling difficulties, family pressures and the general feeling of unrest and unease that new york city causes me. i’m the only person i know who hates traveling. i’ve recently given up thinking that everyone else is wrong and i [...]

there’s an article in the NY post today about the hearts book! coolest thing, though, is that it’s one of the most emailed articles of the day. you can see the article here – and thanks to dr. rock for the sweet publicity!
also, i got a terrific email last night from the mother of a [...]

when i last saw patty she had just graduated from high school and was headed off to college. the next few years after that brought a scramble of other things to distract me; trying to make a living, trying to find the book a publisher, maybe even trying to grow up a bit. when [...]