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Amazing Days, Endless Nights: The Mystique of Surgery3
Amazing Days...
Days in the operating theater are filled with an array of surgical diseases, football sized tumors, blocked arteries, diseased gallbladders, complex and mundane surgeries. Over many years such days often continue on to...
Endless Nights...
...nights filled with sick and injured people, sometimes only moments away from death. Stab wounds and gunshots, ruptured bowels and appendicitis, broken bodies who arrive in search of healing.
Every chapter ot the third volume of The Mystique of Surgery examines such cases, along with the thoughts and actions of surgeon David Gelber through his journey from naive medical student to seasoned, wizened and humbled surgeon. Through it all...
The Mystique of Surgery...
...is, once again, laid bare.The snap decisions, which lead to life or death, followed by days and nights filled with worry as patients recover from complex surgical procedures are presented with all the sights, sounds and smells which fill the Operating Room. After providing his readers with glimpses Behind the Mask and Under the Drapes , Dr. Gelber now escorts these readers through Amazing Days and Endless Nights, as tales from the OR fill the pages and provide an insight into the heart and mind of a veteran surgeon.
Days in the operating theater are filled with an array of surgical diseases, football sized tumors, blocked arteries, diseased gallbladders, complex and mundane surgeries. Over many years such days often continue on to...
Endless Nights...
...nights filled with sick and injured people, sometimes only moments away from death. Stab wounds and gunshots, ruptured bowels and appendicitis, broken bodies who arrive in search of healing.
Every chapter ot the third volume of The Mystique of Surgery examines such cases, along with the thoughts and actions of surgeon David Gelber through his journey from naive medical student to seasoned, wizened and humbled surgeon. Through it all...
The Mystique of Surgery...
...is, once again, laid bare.The snap decisions, which lead to life or death, followed by days and nights filled with worry as patients recover from complex surgical procedures are presented with all the sights, sounds and smells which fill the Operating Room. After providing his readers with glimpses Behind the Mask and Under the Drapes , Dr. Gelber now escorts these readers through Amazing Days and Endless Nights, as tales from the OR fill the pages and provide an insight into the heart and mind of a veteran surgeon.
298 pages, Paperback
Published December 24, 2018
About the author
David Gelber
14 books69 followers I was raised in upstate New York, the seventh of nine boys. I started writing a few years ago, picking up where I had left off in college. My primary job is performing surgery, a general surgeon in Houston, TX; writing is a passion, but with the changes in health care may take center stage.
I hope you enjoy my futuristic novels, "Future Hope" and "Joshua and Aaron",both are populated with a colorful crew of characters: horseplayers, scientists, talented jet pilots, and others that will keep you glued to the page until the end.
And, there are two books I've written about surgery "Behind the Mask" and "Under the Drapes", which bring the reader into the world of surgery and into a surgeon's (often bizarre) mind.
Finally, look for the release of "Minotaur Revisited" an entertaining romp through history with the famed Minotaur of Greek Mythology.
I hope you enjoy my futuristic novels, "Future Hope" and "Joshua and Aaron",both are populated with a colorful crew of characters: horseplayers, scientists, talented jet pilots, and others that will keep you glued to the page until the end.
And, there are two books I've written about surgery "Behind the Mask" and "Under the Drapes", which bring the reader into the world of surgery and into a surgeon's (often bizarre) mind.
Finally, look for the release of "Minotaur Revisited" an entertaining romp through history with the famed Minotaur of Greek Mythology.
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May 20, 2019
As a retired pharmacist in hospitals & clinics, I enjoyed this book, with Dr Gelber's honesty & sense of humor. For the layman, it might be a bit difficult to get through, as there are many medical procedures & terminology that might be too dry. All in all, it was a very interesting book, giving one an insight into the day to day work of a general surgeon.
July 13, 2019
This book presents interesting days, nights and cases I have dealt with over the years. My thoughts and decision making are displayed, starting with medical school days and continuing to the present.
"Amazing Days/Endless Nights"complements the first two books in the "Mystique of Surgery" series. The reader of all three books will have a picture of surgery which has rarely been presented, including the thoughts that percolate through a surgeon's mind while operating, the surgeon's perceptions of the many diseases encountered, which I hope provide the reader with a sense of what it is like to be in the Operating theater.
The link below provides a non surgeon's views after reading "Amazing Days/Endless Nights."
https://readersfavorite.com/book-revi...David Gelber
"Amazing Days/Endless Nights"complements the first two books in the "Mystique of Surgery" series. The reader of all three books will have a picture of surgery which has rarely been presented, including the thoughts that percolate through a surgeon's mind while operating, the surgeon's perceptions of the many diseases encountered, which I hope provide the reader with a sense of what it is like to be in the Operating theater.
The link below provides a non surgeon's views after reading "Amazing Days/Endless Nights."
https://readersfavorite.com/book-revi...David Gelber
June 18, 2019
This one Amazing Days- Endless Nights by David Gelber MD. It is a book about his career first as a med student, then as an intern, then 5 more years as a Resident- I didn't know you could be a Resident for that long. And then finally as a surgeon in his own practice. It is an interesting book, but I don't think Gelber is writing for the laymen. I was having to look up terms in my dictionary constantly. One part though I really did like and found kind of humorous is the Pizza part- spoiler alert! A young man I'd say in his early 20s comes to the ER in terrible pain. He is 300 something pounds, and has an awful stomach ache. The doctor asked what was the last thing he ate. And this boy tells him 35 slices of pizza! Can you imagine? I don't think I could ever eat that much pizza. I won't tell you what else happens so as not to spoil the book for you. Check it out for an interesting read.
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