Direct Red: A Surgeon's View of Her Life-Or-Death Profession - Softcover

Weston, Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061725412 ISBN 13: 9780061725418

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2010

Synopsis

"What a terrific book....[Weston] leaves you feeling that if push came to shove you'd want to be operated on by her."
--Nicholas Shakespeare, author of Bruce Chatwin: A Biography

The continuing popularity of doctor shows on TV--from Scrubs, House, and Grey's Anatomy to the television phenomenon ER--indicates a widespread fascination with all things medical. Direct Red, by practicing ear, nose, and throat surgical specialist Gabriel Weston, takes readers behind the scenes and into the operating room for a fascinating look at what really goes on on the other side of the hospital doors. "A Surgeon's View of her Life-and-Death Profession," Weston's Direct Red is written not only with knowledge and insight, but with compassion, honesty, and literary flair.

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Review:

Gabriel Weston's exactitude of expression is rare and uncanny, the more so for the sense one gets that this is a world in which the moral value of truthfulness is ambiguous. Her description of the struggle to remain individual and hence moral is her real achievement. This, to me, is what female writing has to do, and she does it with style and humour and beauty. --Rachel Cusk

Perceptive and beautifully written. An original voice. --Dr James Le Fanu

Book Description:

"Gabriel Weston writes with an honesty that is both brave and uncomfortable"

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061725412
• ISBN 13: 9780061725418
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224