{"product_id":"last-night-in-the-or-a-transplant-surgeons-odyssey-paperback","title":"Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBud Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Henry Marsh's \u003ci\u003eDo No Harm\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul A. Ruggieri's \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Surgeon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand Atul Gawande's \u003ci\u003eBetter, \u003c\/i\u003e a pioneering surgeon shares memories from a life in one of surgery's most demanding fields\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the tradition of Mary Roach, Jerome Groopman, Eric Topol, and Atul Gawande, \u003ci\u003eLast Night in the OR \u003c\/i\u003eis an exhilarating, fast-paced, and beautifully written memoir, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eone that will captivate readers with its courage, intimacy, and honesty.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBud Shaw \u003c\/b\u003egrew up the oldest child of a general surgeon in rural south central Ohio. He graduated with an AB in Chemistry from Kenyon College in 1972 and received his MD degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1976. In 1981, he completed a surgery residency at the University of Utah, then trained in Pittsburgh under Tom Starzl, the father of liver transplantation. An internationally renowned transplant surgeon by age 35, Shaw left Pittsburgh in 1985 to start a new transplant program in Nebraska that quickly became one of the most respected transplant centers in the world. An author of 300 journal articles, 50 book chapters, and a founding editor of the prestigious journal, \u003ci\u003eLiver Transplantation\u003c\/i\u003e, he retired from active practice and the department chairmanship in 2009, and now focuses on writing, teaching and the value of narrative studies in medical education and clinical practice. His prize-winning essay, \u003ci\u003eMy Night With Ellen Hutchinson\u003c\/i\u003e, published in \u003ci\u003eCreative Nonfiction Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, was nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize and received Special Mention. The father of three adult children, Shaw lives with his wife, novelist Rebecca Rotert (Shaw) in the wooded hills north of Omaha, Nebraska.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.1 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52468809335091,"sku":"9780147515339","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/RctyZts2cI9780147515339.webp?v=1759373643","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/last-night-in-the-or-a-transplant-surgeons-odyssey-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}