Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey

Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey

For readers of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Paul A. Ruggieri's Confessions of a Surgeon, and Atul Gawande's Better,Â a pioneering surgeon shares memories from a life in one of surgeryâ€™s most demanding fields

The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, M.D., who studied under Tom Starzl in Pittsburgh, was on the front lines. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Shaw relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients. He reveals harshly intimate moments of his medical career: telling a patient's husband that his wife has died during surgery; struggling to complete a twenty-hour operation as mental and physical exhaustion inch closer and closer; and flying to retrieve a donor organ while the patient waits in the operating room. Within these more emotionally charged vignettes are quieter ones, too, like growing up in rural Ohio, and being awakened late at night by footsteps in the hall as his father, also a surgeon, slipped out of the house to attend to a patient in the ER.

In the tradition of Mary Roach, Jerome Groopman, Eric Topol, and Atul Gawande,Â Last Night in the OR is an exhilarating, fast-paced, and beautifully written memoir,Â one thatÂ will captivate readers with its courage, intimacy, and honesty.
Country USA
Brand Plume
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780147515339
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2015-09-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780147515339

Country	USA
Brand	Plume
Manufacturer	Penguin Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780147515339
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2015-09-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780147515339

Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey

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