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Surgeons have long been known for their allergy to doubt, an unsurprising trait in professionals who must play God, routinely risking someone else's life in order to do their job. But in this illuminating memoir, Gabriel Weston reveals the emotions, passions, and doubts normally hidden behind a surgeon's mask.
Weston, a surgeon, is also a writer of extraordinary gifts. Compassionate and truthful, her voice brings us into a theater we are normally not allowed to enter. At Weston's side, we learn what it's like to stand in an operating room holding someone's neck open for seven hours, what happens when the line between the personal and the professional begins to blur, and about the shame of watching a patient die. Interweaving her own story with those of her patients, old and young, Weston evokes both the humor and the heartbreak that come from medicine's daily confrontation with the ultimate unknowability of the human body. With prose that does not flinch from the raw, graphic realities of a surgeon's day, Weston confronts life, death, and the unique difficulties of being a female surgeon in a heavily male-dominated profession.
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Jose Luis Labalsa Llaquet
reviewed Direct Red: A Surgeon's View of Her Life or Death Profession on September 01, 2019
Direct Red: A Surgeon's View of Her Life or Death Profession
Surgeons are characters, yet to the contrary we discover British surgeon Gabriel Weston in a unparented state. Dichotomy apparent in "Direct Red: A Surgeon's View of Her Life-or-Death Profession" as we give breath to an image of her as a hippish arts major lacking scientific education and feeling like a total imposter in the surgical theatre.
Direct Red is infused with British-isms and accompanying accent (if you happen to take it in via Audible). Tension is realized when a Surgeon Weston cries for help during a tonsillectomy. And the only answer to her cry is refusal. From breast removals, tonsils and the formation of crafting surgical terms into pure poetry defines Direct Red.
"Saffron, Malachite Green. My back is cold with sweat under a synthetic, unsoakable surgical gown. My mask feels suffocating, its visor as dirty as a windscreen, spattered with today's roadkill."
---Gabriel Weston, ENT Surgeon, U.K.
"Direct Red: A Surgeon's View of Her Life-or-Death Profession" unfolds and reveals an auspicious form of love in the grotesque. We then think of Linnaeus' phrase "to live by medicine is to live horribly" however Weston transforms the horrible into a divine soup of "gratia plena" we stand in line for on a dreary, gray cold British day. Buy.
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