A Surgeon's Memoir

Sandwiched between Dr. Samuel Shem's hilarious  The House of God  and Dr. Eric Manheimer's  Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital , Dr. Stewart Lazow's  A Surgeon's Memoir: 40 Years at the County  takes us on the author's convoluted journey to becoming professor, vice chairman, oral and maxillofacial surgery residency program director, and director of service at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York. Throughout his forty years as a surgeon, Dr