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Title: Last Night in the OR
Subtitle: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey
Author: Bud Shaw
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-29-15
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 76 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, MD, 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 20-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.
Critic Reviews:
"A bracing, unusual personal narrative that should appeal to aspiring physicians as well as to those considering the 'big questions' around high-risk surgery." (Kirkus)