Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Across the Red Line; 1. M & M; 2. How It Comes About That a Successful Operation Ends in Disaster; 3. Fate; 4. A Columnist Comes to Work; 5. Four Patients in Santa Fe; 6. Hanging; 7. Helping SalKnowing When to Quit; 8. On the Table; 9. Hotel Utah; 10. Midwest Bulletin Board; 11. Retirement Party; 12. Match Day; 13. The Norwich Classic Car Rally; 14. Luck
Summary
In the tradition of Lewis Thomas' The Lives of a Cell, a beautiful book on what it's like to be a surgeon
