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Cutting Remarks: Insights and Recollections of a Surgeon by Sidney Schwab Just okay I can't understand why this book got so many top reviews. Not that it is bad, but there are many better books in the how-I-became-a-doctor genre. Michael Collin's Hot Lights, Cold Steel, or Frank Vertosick's When the Air Hits Your Brain are tops in this area. Also, either Atul Gawande's books, Be...read more...

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Across the Red Line: Stories from the Surgical Life by Richard C. Karl Across the Red Line: Stories from the Surgical Life Books written by medical doctors tend to be narrow in scope, often autobiographical and are mostly interesting only to people in the medical profession. Although the general public has a curiosity about the profession and its practitioners very few such works fulfill their promise. Dr Karl has succe...read more...