
Last Night in the OR
A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey
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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Yen
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By:
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Bud Shaw
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.
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interesting subject
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Great author
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Interesting!
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"Dr. Starzl wasn’t happy...complaining. Shun kept silent and moved like a cat to retract something one way, and, without a word, get Hong or Carlos to do something useful. I thought them telepathic...doubted my own survival.”
---Bud Shaw, MD
Pondering on “Last Night in the OR: A Transplants Surgeon’s Odyssey” is nothing even close to mediocrity. In Shaw’s descriptive “...caught a glimpse of the liver lurking under the diaphragm...a shriveled, knobby greenish-yellow lump...sloshed around in a puddle of blood every time the ventilator fired...”we are pierced---as if prose is Shaw’s vernacular.
On the level with mavens like Henry Marsh (Do No Harm) and the genius of Atul Gawande conveyed is his “Being Mortal.” Dr. Byers Shaw begins as a thirty-one-year-old resident under the “acidic” mouth of Dr. Thomas E. Starzl and matures into being a world class surgeon. Definite read. If expletives offend, this is not for you.
Thrilling with Starzl!
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Boring
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Fantastic listen
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Must read
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Will ask for credit due to this since I don't want it in my library.
Great surgeon story
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If you could sum up Last Night in the OR in three words, what would they be?
Very intense, Good!!!Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. You need a break to process it.Any additional comments?
Very surprised at all the "f" words said!Expect alot of bad language!
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entertaining, hilarious, nostalgic
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