Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery

A surgeon shares true stories of life, death, and the human body in an essay collection that "will nail you to your chair" (Saturday Review).

With settings ranging from the operating theater to a Korean ambulance, and topics as varied as the disposition of a corpse and the author's own childhood, these nineteen captivating, wry, and intimate vignettes offer a poignant examination of health, humanity, and, of course, mortality. Sometimes tragic, sometimes humorous, the essays offer a physici...