{"product_id":"last-night-in-the-or-bud-shaw-9780147515339","title":"Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Henry Marsh's \u003ci\u003eDo No Harm\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul A. Ruggieri's \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Surgeon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand Atul Gawande's \u003ci\u003eBetter, \u003c\/i\u003e a pioneering surgeon shares memories from a life in one of surgery's most demanding fields\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the tradition of Mary Roach, Jerome Groopman, Eric Topol, and Atul Gawande, \u003ci\u003eLast Night in the OR \u003c\/i\u003eis an exhilarating, fast-paced, and beautifully written memoir, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eone that will captivate readers with its courage, intimacy, and honesty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bud Shaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0147515335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780147515339\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2015 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015 pg. 129","brand":"Bud Shaw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045617004799,"sku":"9780147515339","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4482886f-61f3-4d5d-a99f-dd977d571641.jpg?v=1684979741","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/last-night-in-the-or-bud-shaw-9780147515339","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}