How to Do a Liver Transplant : Stories from My Surgical Life.

How to Do a Liver Transplant : Stories from My Surgical Life.

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 Mou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Slater, Kellee
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of New South Wales Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Slater, Kellee > Anecdotes.
Liver > Transplantation > Government policy > Australia.
Liver > Transplantation > Australia > Anecdotes.
Surgeons > Australia > Anecdotes.
Liver > Transplantation
Liver > Transplantation > Government policy
Surgeons
Australia
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Anecdotes
Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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