by Richard Selzer (Author)

Highly candid, insightful, and unexpectedly humorous essays on both the brutality and the beauty of the profession in which saving and losing lives is all in a day's work. A timeless collection by the "best of the writing surgeons" (Chicago Tribune). With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition.

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Candid, insightful, unexpectedly funny, a timeless collection that will compel anyone fascinated by the miracles of the human body, life, and death.