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As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession. In Confessions of a Surgeon, he pushes open the doors of the O.R. and reveals the inscrutable place where lives are improved, saved, and sometimes lost. He shares the successes, failures, remarkable advances, and camaraderie that make it exciting. He uncovers the truth about the abusive, exhaustive training and the arduous devotion of his old-school education. He explores the twenty-four-hour challenges that come from patients and their loved ones; the ethics of saving the lives of repugnant criminals; the hot-button issues of healthcare, lawsuits, and reimbursements; and the true cost of running a private practice. And he explains the influence of the "white coat code of silence" and why patients may never know what really transpires during surgery.
Ultimately, Dr. Ruggieri lays bare an occupation that to most is as mysterious and unfamiliar as it is misunderstood. His account is passionate, illuminating, and often shocking-an eye-opening, never- before-seen look at real life, and death, in the O.R.
Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors Reviews
Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors Reviews
| 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:  Brilliant!, This review is from: Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors (Paperback) As a long time follower of the medical and health industry, I believe this is the most honest (and for many patients too honest) look at what goes on before, during and after one goes into the hospital for surgery. The fact that the author was trained at one of the top surgery programs in the world (Barnes Hospital in St. Louis), is a former medical military officer, and was associated with Harvard Medical makes his insight even more compelling. The writing is excellent and often very humurous. You immediately see Dr. Ruggieri has a heart and cares deeply for his patients. He bears the full burden of every surgery and measures his own self-worth on the outcome of each patient he cares for. The book is going to be must reading for many years. It not only helps patients and their families to understand ahead of time what to expect and ask for before a surgery, it also addresses many of the realities and shortcomings of the medical industry (patients lack of... Read more 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful: Breathtaking...and it's still sinking in, By Positive Logic (L.A.) - See all my reviews This review is from: Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors (Paperback) I took "Confessions of Surgeon" on vacation with me and I found it to be a huge distraction. Of course, I mean that in a very positive way. The graphic details of Dr. Ruggeiri's experiences in medical school and then into his 20-year career as a surgeon reveal a real-life drama that is far more extreme than any pre-conceived idea I had had from watching depictions in the cinema and documentaries. You'll get it from all sides:THE GOOD You'll read about patients with minimal odds for survival...whose insides were a mess...then going into deep coma in post-surgery. Several weeks later they're sitting up and chatting with Dr. Ruggieri. And you'll learn that while surgeons have to be tough and make the hard decisions based on cold probabilities, they do shed tears. THE BAD There's the 10-year with a knife wound who Dr. Ruggeiri tries to save in the wee hours of the night. Later, it's revealed how the "accident" occurred. You have to read it to... Read more 6 of 7 people found the following review helpful: Not always right but never in doubt, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors (Paperback) Surgeons are full of courage. To cut into another human being, slicing through the living, bleeding skin, exposing the interior organs, removing, rearranging or remodeling them, requires outrageous conceit. An elective surgery, performed on a patient who is healthy, who freely requests such injury in pursuit of a greater good, is daring enough. But surgeons are often confronted with a desperate person, one who teeters on the brink of death, desiring only life. Surgery in such circumstances may save them, or it may hasten their departure to the land from which none return. The final arbiter of that hasty decision may be a judge and jury, and the final disposition financial and social ruin for the intrepid doctor. Who would choose such a job in a time of shrinking pay and waxing quality reviews?Fortunately for all of us, there are plenty of individuals who would. The old axiom that surgeons are born, not made, holds true. Regardless of the rewards or penalties exacted upon... Read more |
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