description: In this memoir, Gabriel Weston reveals the emotions, passions, and doubts normally hidden behind a surgeon's mask. 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.
title: Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story