Samer A. M. Nashef

Ever since his days as a medical student, Samer Nashef has challenged the medical profession to be more open and accurate about the success of surgical procedures, for the sake of the patients. Here he unclothes his own profession to demonstrate many revelations, such as the paradox at the heart of the cardiac surgeon’s craft: the more an operation is likely to kill you, the better it is for you. And he does so with absolute clarity, fluency and not a little wit.