Full name: Direct Red: A Surgeon's View of Her Life-or-Death Profession

Author: Gabriel Weston Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780224085632 9780061725418 0224085638 0061725412

In this memoir, Gabriel Weston reveals the emotions, passions, and doubts normally hidden behind a surgeon's mask. At Weston's side, we learn what it's like to stand in an operating room holding someone's neck open for seven hours, what happens when the line between the personal and the professional begins to blur, and about the shame of watching a patient die. Interweaving her own story with those of her patients, old and young.