surgeons

A biography of the Civil War surgeon, Jonathan Letterman.

"The story of the landmark 1944 surgical procedure that repaired the heart of a child with blue baby syndrome--lack of blood oxygen caused by a congenital defect. The team that developed the procedure included a cardiologist and a surgeon, but most of the actual work was done by Vivien Thomas, an African American lab assistant who was frequently mistaken for a janitor"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a biography of African American doctor Charles Drew covering his early years, his education, his scientific discoveries related to blood, and the impact of his findings on the field of medicine. Includes critical thinking questions, a glossary, and a list of additional resources.

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.

Chronicles the life of John Hunter, the most famous anatomist and surgeon of the eighteenth century, focusing on the contributions he made to the fields of science and medicine.

Orthopedic surgeon Michael Collins chronicles his four years as a surgical resident at Mayo Clinic, discussing his early feelings of incompetency, sharing stories of some of the difficult decisions he had to make when treating patients, and shedding light on the harsh and humorous realities of life for resident doctors.

Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter and a downsizing in his medical practice only to discover a shocking secret that changes his understanding of everything.

Dr. Khassan Baiev describes his experiences after leaving a promising surgical career in Moscow in 1994 to provide medical services to the people of Chechnya which was under attack by Russian troops, discussing how he managed with poor facilities and few supplies, as well as the constant threat of execution by the Russians.

Discusses the brief life of an extraordinary young doctor whose research with blood left us many legacies.

Forty-seven-year-old divorc?e Tiffany Eastman goes to St. Louis to start over fresh, and finds herself falling in love with surgeon Jason Cates, her former roommate's widowed father.