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Title: Death on the Learning Curve Sub-Title: The making of a surgeon Editor: Dawson Church, Ph.D. Format: Hardcover Genre: Medical Fiction Publication Date: October 15, 2006 First Printing: 5,000 copies Available from: Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Regional Wholesalers Distributed by: Midpoint Trade Consumer Orders: Coming soon to Amazon.com Size: 6"W x 9"H Page Count: 250 Illustrations: None ISBN: 1-60070-014-4 Price: $24.95 Tour Dates for 2006: November 2006: Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego Tour Dates for 2007: January 2007: Portland, Seattle, Sacramento Major Media Includes: National Print, TV Shows, and Online Venues. Contact: Jeanne House, Publicist, (707)888-3314, jeanne@authorspublishing.com Website: http://www.piercescranton.com Copyright-Free 200 word description:      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 decisions…deep questions of ethics…roaring personality conflicts…the glory of saving a life-and the horror when a simple procedure goes terribly wrong. Renowned surgeon Pierce Scranton, Jr., former President of both the NFL Physicians Society (doctors who treat NFL professional football players) and the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society and former Chief of Orthopedics for a Seattle hospital, kept a detailed diary of his internship year at a busy California teaching hospital. This book is a vivid, fictionalized memoir of that year in the trenches. Through the intertwined stories of teachers, students and patients, it explores issues like: What happens when teaching and healing come into conflict? When is a new treatment to prolong life a good idea, and when is it a disaster? How did lawyers and bean-counters get so much power? And when do relationships between doctors and other staff "go too far?" This honest account is startling and sometimes shocking-but always gripping. The information on this website is Copyright Free and may be used by any person reviewing or mentioning the book in a broadcast or media article