Review: Deep, Delightful and Despairing All at Once
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2014
This book offers up some incredibly insightful essays on OR procedures which are side-splitting at times, but occasionally solemn and outright tragic. Many different ideas are brought to the table, from the importance of organ donors to the unfortunate fact that even surgeons make mistakes. There is even some discussion of the notion that "People Put the Strangest Things in Their Butts."The major problem with this work is mostly in its organization. Chapters are not formatted so that they can be skipped to as in most Kindle books, and the chapter titles are sometimes difficult to find as many of them do not have their own heading line but are rather affixed to the last line of the previous chapter. Luckily, the chapters are short and not too much searching will be required if the reader wants to find a specific portion of the book.This brevity is both a gift and a curse. At just under 50 pages, this book seems geared toward use on the Kindle as it is perfect for a short flight and is divided into very different chapters which can be consumed for a few minutes at a time. The problem is that some of the information is so interesting that some readers will inevitably want more. Sometimes the book will get serious right as the reader is doubled over in laughter, or become light-hearted not long after a chapter raises some serious issues.While these issues can be frustrating, they do not outweigh the simple fact that this book is a solid read, even if it feels a little incomplete. Anyone interested in this field who has a little bit of time to kill at the airport or in the waiting room will not want to miss out on the contents within.