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Record Nr.

UNINA9910661513603321

Autore

Slater Kellee

Titolo

How to do a liver transplant [[electronic resource] ] : stories from a surgical life / / Kellee Slater

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, : NewSouth, 2013

ISBN

1-74224-643-5

1-74224-148-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

617.092

Soggetti

Liver - Transplantation - Government policy - Australia

Liver - Transplantation - Australia

Surgeons - Australia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover ; About the Author ; Copyright ; Contents; Prologue; I was born to be a general surgeon; You might get into medical school, you know; What body part is that?; Girls shouldn't do surgery; I heart gallbladders; It seems that I'm a doctor now; I can't believe they are going to let me operate on people; The life of a surgical registrar; In the poo; The call of the bile; Rocky Mountain High; You want me to start at what time?; Kellee, there is a donor; How a donor is done; We have found a new liver for you; How to do a liver transplant; Born in the USA

Do you think I could have a piece of your liver?Love you Lynn; Transplant Mom; A fully fledged surgeon at last; Give me the gun, this liver's coming out; We will not let your daughter die; Buy a bra, save a child; Transplanting babies; You have three months to live; How do you do it all?; Acknowledgments; References

Sommario/riassunto

<P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal>As a female surgeon, Dr. Kellee Slater works in one of the most demanding areas of medical operations, liver transplantation. In this inspiring, heartbreaking, and darkly humorous memoir, she opens up the fast-paced world of donor surgery. She takes readers with her as she flies across the Rocky Mountains in winter to collect transplant organs,



rushes out of a department store change room to save the life of a toddler who is choking to death, and, horrifyingly, tells the wrong father in a hospital waiting room that there is no hope for his daugh