After some of what I've read recently, this was rather different, but I am so glad I read it. Mezrich has managed to create a wonderful combination between surgical and medical experience, and their history. Not everyone would have been able to pull this off and make it exciting, and yet he has done so perfectly.
I have a personal interest in transplants due to a beloved family member having had one several years ago, so hearing, step by step, what saved his life, was truly a privilege.
The medical population are overworked, wherever in the world you are, and this book also manages to capture the pressure of Getting It Right as the consequences when it goes Wrong are different to that in any other job.
I also had huge respect for the doctor early on describing how being a surgeon has a high that feels "godlike"; an honest surgeon is someone I would trust.
This book is something that we could all do with reading, to think about what our organs are capable of giving after we are gone. The description of a kidney turning pink after implanted in a new owner is a truly wonderful thing, and has reaffirmed my opinion that we should ALL be donors.
I have a personal interest in transplants due to a beloved family member having had one several years ago, so hearing, step by step, what saved his life, was truly a privilege.
The medical population are overworked, wherever in the world you are, and this book also manages to capture the pressure of Getting It Right as the consequences when it goes Wrong are different to that in any other job.
I also had huge respect for the doctor early on describing how being a surgeon has a high that feels "godlike"; an honest surgeon is someone I would trust.
This book is something that we could all do with reading, to think about what our organs are capable of giving after we are gone. The description of a kidney turning pink after implanted in a new owner is a truly wonderful thing, and has reaffirmed my opinion that we should ALL be donors.