Stories of life death and bravery by a Kiwi female general surgeon Ruthlessly honest and viscerally beautiful. The book I wish I had read as a medical student. Emma Espiner The world of surgery is strange messy and intense. From a man presenting with fishhooks in his stomach to being punched in the face by a patient its all in a mad days work for a female general surgeon. Even with emergency operations in the wee hours and constantly being mistaken for a nurse there are still moments of laughter and tenderness amid the chaos. When Inekes parents in Samoa fall ill she becomes torn between her roles as a surgeon a daughter and a single working mother leading her to ask: are the sacrifices of a life in scrubs worth it? This is an extraordinary memoir from inside the operating room about the heart it takes to survive.
