Title: Scalpel's Edge, The
Description: Encounters with surgeons -- The surgeon as hero -- Are surgeons scientists? -- Styles of surgeons -- Communication with colleagues -- Communication with patients -- How surgeons make decisions: influence of activosture on decision-making -- surgical decision-making, referrals, and "keeping" patients -- The natural history of surgical decisions and their consequences -- Operating room rituals -- Implications of the culture of surgeons for modern medicine -- Appendices.
Subjects: Fiction, general, General Surgery, Interprofessional Relations, Physician-Patient Relations, Physicians, Surgeons, Attitudes, Physician and patient, Surgery, Communication, Decision Making