Last Night in the or Shaw Byers
Last Night in the or Shaw Byers For readers of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Paul A. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Ruggieri's Confessions of a Surgeon, and Atul Gawande's Better, a pioneering…
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Last Night in the or Shaw Byers
For readers of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Paul A. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Ruggieri's Confessions of a Surgeon, and Atul Gawande's Better, a pioneering surgeon shares memories from a life in one of surgery's most demanding fieldsThe 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.
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. Shaw relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients. Within these more