Price of a Penis and Other Tales of a Country Surgeon

A reflection on his life and the American medical system, this book relives the author's journey from a European childhood of poverty and uncertainty to his training as a doctor, culminating in his eventual success as a surgeon in a quiet town in California.

Gus's father, a physician himself, faced the threat of Communism in Czernowitz, escaping into the turmoil of Nazi-annexed Austria, where he found work as a country doctor in a small village until just after the end of the war, when the ...