The surgeons

"Over the course of a year, Charles R. Morris gained unprecedented access to the operating room, the patients, and even the closed-door meetings where the surgeons criticize their own performance. Showing how these extraordinary doctors rise to meet the demands of their virtuosic profession, Morris takes us on a late-night "harvest run" to secure a transplantable organ, and he brings us to the operating room where Jan Quaegebeur, "the greatest congenital surgeon in the universe," rebuilds a newborn baby's malformed heart. Perhaps most poignantly, we hear the story of young Erika Maynard,…