An Excerpt from Counting Backwards

I am an anesthesiologist, I erase consciousness, deny memories, steal time, immobilize the body; I alter heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing. And then I reverse these effects. I eliminate pain during a procedure, and prevent it afterwards. I care for sick people...

Starred Review from Publishers Weekly

Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia will be published November 14, 2017. In the August 21st issue of Publishers Weekly, it received the following starred review: Przybylo, associate professor of anesthesiology at Northwestern University School of...