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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 606 $aLiver$xTransplantation$xGovernment policy$zAustralia 606 $aLiver$xTransplantation$zAustralia$vAnecdotes 606 $aSurgeons$zAustralia$vAnecdotes 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiver$xTransplantation$xGovernment policy 615 0$aLiver$xTransplantation 615 0$aSurgeons 676 $a617.092 700 $aSlater$b Kellee$01038027 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480713403321 996 $aHow to do a liver transplant$92459346 997 $aUNINA