Death on the Learning Curve

By Pierce E. Scranton and Pierce Scranton MD

A hospital operating room may not be as safe as you think it is. Hiding among the sterile scrubs and gleaming instruments of an operating room is a whole lot of high drama: split-second life-and-death... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600700144
• ISBN13: 9781600700149
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Elite Books
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A great read folks!

I read Death On the Learning Curve while recovering from ankle surgery and I thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, someday in the future, I plan on reading it again! It was a hard book to put down and I couldn't wait to see the outcome of the medical drama. I now understand how hard it is for interns to make decisions that could cost another's life. While reading this book, I often gasped, laughed, and got teary eyed. You won't be disappointed if you invest your money and time into this book. This review was written by Linda Gardner.

attention to detail

Dr. Scranton's book is a candid and realistic portrait of internship in the 1970's. Although some things have changed, many more things have remained the same. His attention to details makes this story very real and delightfully entertaining. This is a wonderful read for anyone in the medical profession, but medical knowledge is certainly not needed to follow the story line and thoroughly enjoy.

Death on a learning curve

It is a thought provoking book that makes you rethink about where you would go for medical assistance -- a medical teaching institution or an established medical practice. I found this book exciting to read and hard to put down; I could not wait to see what has going to happen next. As a wife and mother I have little time to myself but I would gab every 15-20 minutes I could find to continue the journey with the intern on his way to becoming a doctor.

Life on the learning curve

I loved the book. It is written as surgeon's comming of age book about his internship experiences. The author is one of America's foremost surgeons with a real story to tell.

A page turner of medical suspense that's nearly impossible to put down...

This book is a very enjoyable read. It is a page-turner of medical suspense that's nearly impossible to put down. If you like TV medical dramas like ER or Grey's Anatomy, then you'll really like this book. It'll also shock you into awareness of what really goes on in teaching hospitals... the ethical dilemmas, life and death situations that require split second actions, the simple mistakes that lead to disaster, the positive outcomes that make the medical doctor's training worthwhile. The book will make you more aware for when you or family members go into the hospital, all the while entertaining you as you read the book.