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Monday Mornings by Sanjay Gupta

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Every time surgeons operate, they're betting their skills are better than the brain tumor, the faulty heart valve, the fractured femur. Sometimes, they're wrong. At Chelsea General, surgeons answer for bad outcomes at the Morbidity and Mortality conference, known as M & M. This extraordinary peek behind the curtain into what is considered the most secretive meeting in all of medicine is the back drop for the entire book.Monday Mornings, by Dr. Sanjay Gupta,... more

About Sanjay Gupta

Sanjay Gupta, MD, is a practicing neurosurgeon at Emory University Hospital and associate chief of service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.


Published: March 12, 2013 by Grand Central Publishing

Genre: Literature & Fiction. Fiction. 272 pages

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  • All Critics: 7
  • Positive: 2
  • Negative: 5
  • Huffington Post | 13 Apr 2012

    left me feeling that the greatest medical miracle of all is human resilience.

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  • Newcity Lit | 12 Apr 2012

    And the medical cases are glossed over and generalized with flat, uninspiring language, even when they come from Gupta’s own field of interest.

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  • Publishers Weekly | 27 Feb 2012

    Though the book reads quickly, medical jargon will alternately intrigue and frustrate a general audience, and readers will be left wondering whether Gupta should be the subject of his own M&M.

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  • Book Reporter | 30 Mar 2012

    He has created a dramatic and moving novel that will be devoured by medical fiction fans.

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  • Kirkus Reviews | 15 Mar 2012

    In this debut novel, Gupta commits some of the more common errors of Fiction 101 by telling more than showing, and then showing the mundane with as much attention as the distinctive.

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  • Kirkus Reviews | 5 Mar 2012

    Gupta commits some of the more common errors of Fiction 101 by telling more than showing, and then showing the mundane with as much attention as the distinctive.

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  • Helium | 29 May 2012

    This is a fast-moving book that adds too much information into it. Readers get lost in all the threads that it contains.

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