Well, Doc, It Seemed Like a Good Idea At The Time!: The Unexpected Adventures of a Trauma Surgeon

By J. Paul Waymack

300 consecutive weeks as an Amazon Best Seller

In 1976, Paul Waymack began chronicling his experience as a third-year medical student. For the next 20 years, he kept a journal filled with crazy stories of unusual patients, unforgettable encounters, and international espionage.

Some of them, he's the first to admit, seem unbelievable.

Chasing a naked patient around the ER parking lot in the middle of the night . . .Constructing a horse sling for a 700-pound patient . . .Treating a patient who swallowed a cigarette lighter . . .Serving as a major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during the Cold War on orders of the president with a KGB agent tailing him all throughout the Soviet Union.

Well, Doc is a captivating medical memoir filled with funny anecdotes, heartwarming moments, and candid insights into the world of medicine. Every one of them, true.

With scalpel-sharp wit and compassion as deep as the human heart, Dr. Waymack reveals the hilarious, heartbreaking, and often unbelievable realities of life as a burn surgeon. Prepare to be entertained, enlightened, and utterly charmed by this unforgettable memoir.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1719944598
• ISBN13: 9781719944595
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good history read but sadly another Doctor with a God complex

I enjoyed how the chapters were short so you could enjoy small short stories. I enjoyed the history behind Dr. Waymak’s Military career and his work with the Soviet Union. I did not like how this book confirms that a lot of doctors have a God like complex. Very full of himself and during his work in the ER most of his work of helping people was labeling them crazy if they couldn’t be figured out. And that is what is wrong with a lot of doctors today (yes some were genuinely crazy, others he made assumptions without evidence). I wish he was more humble and shared his experiences as more human and less God like. Because he does have some really great stories.