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A hospital operating room may not be as safe as you think it is. Hiding among the sterile scrubs and gleaming instruments of an operating room is a whole lot of high drama: split-second life-and-death decisionsdeep questions of ethicsroaring personality conflictsthe glory of saving a life-and the horror when a simple procedure goes terribly wrong.Renowned surgeon Pierce Scranton, Jr., kept a detailed diary of his internship year at a busy California teaching hospital. This book is a vivid, fictionalized memoir of that year in the trenches. Through the intertwined stories of teachers, students and patients, it explores issues like: What happens when teaching and healing come into conflict? When is a new treatment to prolong life a good idea, and when is it a disaster? How did lawyers and bean-counters get so much power? And when do relationships between doctors and other staff "go too far?" This honest account is startling and sometimes shocking-but always gripping.

Book details

• Full title: Death on the Learning Curve
• Author: Pierce Scranton
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 329
• EAN: 9781600700149
• ISBN: 1600700144
• ID: 12358787
• Publisher: Elite Books
• Weight: 586 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 161 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: January 2010

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