Stephen Westaby / 史蒂芬·维斯塔比
Stephen Westaby / 史蒂芬·维斯塔比 is the cardiac surgeon at the center of 86.打开一颗心：那美好的仗，我已经打过了 and [[DakayiKexin|《打开一颗心》 / Open Heart]]. The episode presents him as a working-class child born in 1948 who became fixated on heart surgery after seeing heart-lung-machine surgery on television and after watching illness take close family members.
The source’s Westaby is not only a technically gifted surgeon. His career is built from repeated encounters with death: a failed mitral-valve operation he watched as a student, a first lead surgery complicated by unexpected bleeding, burned patients who needed custom airway work, the desert-infant case, early artificial-heart patients, Julie’s AB180 rescue, and Kirsty’s near-hopeless infant operation.
His strongest wiki role is to connect High-Risk Surgical Innovation with Medical Risk Management. The episode frames his rule-bending and institutional anger as dangerous but not casual: he works at the boundary where doing nothing, waiting for permission, or optimizing public statistics can also harm patients.
Connections
- [[DakayiKexin|《打开一颗心》 / Open Heart]] - memoir/professional record discussed by the episode.
- High-Risk Surgical Innovation - main concept his career illustrates.
- Artificial Heart Bridge Therapy, [[RobertJarvik|Robert Jarvik / 罗伯特·贾维克]], and [[AB180BloodPump|AB180 blood pump]] - mechanical-circulatory-support branch.
- Medical Risk Management, Medical Knowledge Boundary, and Surgical Outcome Metric Distortion - clinical and institutional risk frames tied to his cases.