Fox News' Jamie Colby and Husband Pen Inspirational Memoir

Heart disease doesn't just prey on the weak and unhealthy — that's the hard lesson that Dr. Mark Wallack learned when he was forced to undergo quadruple bypass surgery. Wallack was a well-known oncologist, the Chief of Surgery at Metropolitan Hospital, and Vice-Chair of the Department of Surgery at New York Medical College. He was an avid runner and a healthy eater. One day while running in Central Park, Wallack began to suffer from angina-like symptoms.

Two days later, after learning from doctors — his own colleagues — that his arteries were 95 percent blocked, Dr. Wallack underwent quadruple bypass surgery. He found that he was entirely unprepared for both the physical and emotional repercussions of this life-altering news and surgery. Now, Mark Wallack has written an inspirational memoir with his wife, Fox News anchor Jamie Colby, called Back to Life After a Heart Crisis: A Doctor and His Wife Share Their 8-Step Cardiac Comeback Plan.

In the book, Wallack and Colby present their 8-step plan to getting their lives back on track after this major setback that they never thought they would encounter. According to BasilandSpice.com, they present their advice in an "sports/military fashion," and provide an "honest, detailed account of the surgical, rehabilitative and emotional dimensions of coming close to death, putting your life in the hands of people you don't know, and then attempting to rebuild that (active, accomplished, stressed, and full) life once out of the hospital."

Colby and Wallack's voices are both interwoven throughout the book. She presents advice on getting recovering patients, who are often depressed and finding it hard to go on, out of the house for something as simple as taking a walk. Wallack speaks frankly about how much a serious illness changes a person and is candid about his anxiety and feeling that he was losing control.

Even if you aren't a Fox News viewer, or you don't know anyone going through a serious surgery, this memoir teaches us that it really can happen to anyone. It's truly inspiring to see how Colby and Wallack worked together to make it through the good doctor's ordeal.

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