Informative, irreverent, poignant and very funny....There has always been an air of mystery about the surgeon....The Making of a Surgeon remedies all that and then some. It takes us into the operating suite, stands us over the anesthesized patient, almost hands us the scalpel.

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An intensely human record of a young surgeon's apprenticeship - a step-by-step chronicle of the blood-and-guts process by which he acquired the kind of skill one has to depend on in an emergency. It takes us into the operating suite, stands us over the anesthesized patient, almost hands us the scalpel.

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