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Direct red a surgeon's view of her life-or-death profession

In the tradition of Atul Gawande and Sherwin B. Nuland comes an eloquent and piercing account of a young woman's surgical education. Surgeons have long been known for their allergy to doubt, an unsurprising trait in professionals who must play God, routinely risking someone else's life in order to do their job. But in this illuminating memoir, Gabriel Weston reveals the emotions, passions, and doubts normally hidden behind a surgeon's mask. Weston, a surgeon, is also a writer of extraordinary gifts. Compassionate and truthful, her voice brings us into a theater we are normally not allowed to enter. At Weston's side, we learn what it's like to stand in an operating room holding someone's neck open for seven hours, what happens when the line between the personal and the professional begins to blur, and about the shame of watching a patient die. Interweaving her own story with those of her patients, old and young, Weston evokes both the humor and the heartbreak that come from medicine's daily confrontation with the ultimate unknowability of the human body. With prose that does not flinch from the raw, graphic realities of a surgeon's day, Weston confronts life, death, and the unique difficulties of being a female surgeon in a heavily male-dominated profession.

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  • "How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands? What is it like to cut into someone else's body? How do you tell a beautiful young man who seems perfectly fit that he has only a few days left to live? What happens when, on a quiet ward late at night, a patient you've grown close to lifts the corner of his blankets and invites you into his bed? In this startling and honest book, female surgeon Gabriel Weston allows light to fall on the questions we have all wanted to ask about surgery. Direct Red is also unusual in telling the truth about what it is like to be a woman competing in a world dominated by Alpha males, in the big-city hospitals of the twenty-first century."
  • "In the tradition of Atul Gawande and Sherwin B. Nuland comes an eloquent and piercing account of a young woman's surgical education. Surgeons have long been known for their allergy to doubt, an unsurprising trait in professionals who must play God, routinely risking someone else's life in order to do their job. But in this illuminating memoir, Gabriel Weston reveals the emotions, passions, and doubts normally hidden behind a surgeon's mask. Weston, a surgeon, is also a writer of extraordinary gifts. Compassionate and truthful, her voice brings us into a theater we are normally not allowed to enter. At Weston's side, we learn what it's like to stand in an operating room holding someone's neck open for seven hours, what happens when the line between the personal and the professional begins to blur, and about the shame of watching a patient die. Interweaving her own story with those of her patients, old and young, Weston evokes both the humor and the heartbreak that come from medicine's daily confrontation with the ultimate unknowability of the human body. With prose that does not flinch from the raw, graphic realities of a surgeon's day, Weston confronts life, death, and the unique difficulties of being a female surgeon in a heavily male-dominated profession."@en
  • "How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands? What is it like to cut into someone else's body? What is it like to stand by, powerless, while someone dies because of the incompetence of your seniors? In this startlingly honest book, female surgeon Gabriel Weston answers the questions we have all wanted to ask about surgery. DIRECT RED tells the truth about what it is like to be a woman competing, in a world dominated by Alpha males, in the big-city hospitals of the twenty-first century."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Herinneringen (vorm)"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Autobiographies"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Autobiographical fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Medical novels"
  • "Anthologie"

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  • "Wir Halbgötter Bekenntnisse einer Chirurgin"
  • "Direct red a surgeon's view of her life-or-death profession"@en
  • "Ostře rudá : osobní zpověď lékařky o světě, kde život a smrt balancují na špičce skalpelu"
  • "Chirurg in opleiding"
  • "Direct red : a surgeon's view of her life-or-death profession"@en
  • "Direct red : a surgeon's view of her life-or-death profession"
  • "Direct red"
  • "Direct red a surgeon's story"@en
  • "Direct red : a surgeon's story"
  • "Direct red : a surgeon's story"@en

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