Chaucer’s Books hosts Dr. Anthony Goodman

Chaucer’s Books (3321 State Street) hosts Dr. Anthony Goodman for a book talk with Maribeth Goodman about his book, Great Saves and Terrible Losses: The Journeys of a Surgeon.

Description

In Great Saves and Terrible Losses: The Journeys of a Surgeon, Dr. Goodman recounts memorable events from his career as a surgeon from 1967 to 1993, before miracles such as CAT scans, MRIs, and minimally invasive surgery. This riveting memoir follows Dr. Goodman through a career that took him around the world, through his retirement from the practice of surgery and into his second career as a professor and author. He reveals his approach to coping with his mild Alzheimer’s diagnosis, as not only a patient but now as a well-educated MD with a steep curve learning about the ever-changing nature of this disease, its impact as well as pathology, and options for management.

 About the Author

ANTHONY A. GOODMAN, MD, FACS, graduated from Harvard, earned his medical degree from Cornell Medical College, and trained as a surgical intern and resident at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. He completed his surgical training and served as chief resident at the Harvard Surgical Service of Boston City Hospital, New England Deaconess Hospital, the Lahey Clinic, and Cambridge Hospital. For twenty years, he worked as a general surgeon in South Florida and served as a clinical associate professor of surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine. In addition, he served as a surgeon with the US Army Medical Corps during the Vietnam War and on Project HOPE’s hospital ship in Jamaica. He was also a visiting professor of surgery at the Christchurch Clinical School of Medicine in New Zealand, an adjunct professor of medicine in the WWAMI Medical Sciences Program of Montana State University, an affiliate professor in the Department of Biological Structure at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and a lecturer for the Great Courses. His previous books include None but the Brave: A Novel of the Surgeons of World War II, The Shadow of God: A Novel of War and Faith, and Never Say Die: A Doctor and Patient Talk about Breast Cancer.