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Monday Mornings [With Earbuds]

Name: Monday Mornings [With Earbuds]
Author: Sanjay Gupta
ISBN: 9781611130805

by Sanjay Gupta

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Synopsis

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A practicing neurosurgeon himself, Gupta provides a unique look inside the high-pressure world of medicine and paints a vivid picture of the method by which surgeons learn often through their mistakes.
Every time surgeons operate, they are betting that their skills can beat a brain tumor, a faulty heart valve, or a clogged artery. Sometimes, they re wrong. At Chelsea General, surgeons answer for bad outcomes at the Morbidity and Mortality Conference, known as M & M. This extraordinary peek behind the curtain into what is considered one of the most secret meetings in all of medicine is the backdrop for Sanjay Gupta s first novel. "Monday Mornings" follows the lives of five surgeons as they push the limits of their abilities and confront their personal and professional failings, often in front of their peers at M & M."

Review

In the high-stakes profession of neurosurgery, the bigger you are, the harder you fall. Or so it seems in the nifty first novel by CNN's chief medical correspondent Gupta, who is also a practicing neurosurgeon and nonfiction author. At the Chelsea General Hospital in Michigan, Dr. Ty Wilson is suffering from a serious crisis in confidence after a child dies during an operation. His medical colleagues include George Villanueva, a hulking former NFL player turned ER doctor, and Tina Ridgeway, a meticulous neurosurgeon whose home life is a mess. For quirkiness, there's a patient who undergoes surgery for bleeding cerebral aneurysms and develops an unusual postoperative mania for sketching human ears. For irony, the perfectionist head of surgery makes a jumbo mistake, and a middle-aged Korean neurosurgeon is afflicted with a deadly brain tumor. Despite their flaws, these fictional physicians possess extremely high empathy quotients. They make clinical and personal blunders, yet some attain redemption, and nearly all experience epiphanies. You don't have to be a brain surgeon to write a novel, but with
Monday Mornings, readers will be glad one did.―
Booklist

Praise for CHEATING DEATH: "You will be on the edge of your seat as you read the superbly crafted stories of people who have beaten the odds, something I like to think I know quite a bit about. My friend Dr. Sanjay Gupta, America's doctor, has written a page-turner. It's an exciting medical thriller with the compassion, hope, excitement and aspiration that define Sanjay."
--Lance Armstrong

Praise for CHEATING DEATH: "I owe my recovery and my health to medical advances and the remarkable pioneers behind them. In his new book, the World's Doctor, Sanjay Gupta, delivers a breathtaking preview of a coming revolution in medicine that challenges virtually everything we think we know about living and dying. A truly provocative and fascinating reading experience."
--President Bill Clinton

About the Author

Sanjay Gupta, MD, is a practicing neurosurgeon at Emory University Hospital and associate chief of service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.