O.R.: The True Story Of 24 Hours In A Hospital Operating Room

Description for O.R.: THE TRUE STORY OF 24 HOURS IN A HOSPITAL OPERATING ROOM by B D Colen: Every year, almost 11 million Americans are wheeled through the doors of the mysterious world of a hospital operating room, where a team of specialists perform one of scores of medical procedures. Some are routine, others are astoundingly complicated and delicate, but all are absolutely fascinating. In this gripping, minute-by-minute account of 24 hours in the operating suite of North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York, Pulitzer Prize-winning "Newsday" correspondent B. D. Colen takes us into the windowless, tile-walled realm that patients see for only a short while before the anesthesiologist puts them to sleep. This is the vividly detailed portrait of a world in which both the mysterious and the miraculous are all in a day's work ... and of the real men and women who daily face these split-second, life-and-death decisions. We hear their stories and share their triumphs and th