For readers of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Paul A. Ruggieri's Confessions of a Surgeon,and Atul Gawande's Better, a pioneering surgeon shares memories from a life in one of surgery's most demanding fields

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.

In the tradition of Mary Roach, Jerome Groopman, Eric Topol, and Atul Gawande, Last Night in the OR is an exhilarating, fast-paced, and beautifully written memoir, one that will captivate readers with its courage, intimacy, and honesty.

• We started tracking this book on April 19, 2015.
• This book was $9.99 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 134 times in the past 3,781 days.
• The current price of this book is $7.99 last checked 11 hours ago.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past six months is $5.99.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is $4.99.
• The lowest price to date was $4.99 last reached on October 13, 2024.
• This book has been $4.99 10 times since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was $14.99 last reached on July 28, 2025.
• This book has been $14.99 20 times since we started tracking it.

• Health, Fitness & DietingDiseases & Physical AilmentsOrgan Transplants

• Publication Date: September 15, 2015
• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 291 Pages
• File Size: 926 KB