Direct Red: a Surgeon's View of Her Life-or-death Profession

?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<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

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.