Monday Mornings: A Novel
Written by Sanjay Gupta
Narrated by Christian Rummel
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Every time surgeons operate, they're betting their skills are better than the brain tumor, the faulty heart valve, the fractured femur. Sometimes, they're wrong. At Chelsea General, surgeons answer for bad outcomes at the Morbidity and Mortality conference, known as M & M. This extraordinary peek behind the curtain into what is considered the most secretive meeting in all of medicine is the back drop for the entire book.
Monday Mornings, by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, follows the lives of five surgeons at Chelsea General as they push the limits of their abilities and confront their personal and professional failings, often in front of their peers at M & M. It is on Monday mornings that reflection and introspection occurs, usually in private. It is Monday Mornings that provides a unique look at the real method in which surgeons learn – through their mistakes. It is Monday Mornings when, if you're lucky, you have a chance at redemption.
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Sanjay Gupta
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is CNN’s Emmy Award–winning chief medical correspondent and the host of the acclaimed podcast Chasing Life (formerly Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction), America’s go-to resource for expert advice on how to stay healthy and safe. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Life, Cheating Death, Monday Mornings, and Keep Sharp, Dr. Gupta lives in Atlanta, where he works as an associate professor of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine.
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Reviews for Monday Mornings
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the story of doctors at a very busy large medical center. On Monday mornings, they have discussions where anyone who had made a mistake is hung out to dry. The book, fiction of course, centers on four or five main characters and follows them. The characters were very believeable, but the plot did not seem to come to a climax, but instead continued up and down like an EKG. Also, I do not know if those not in medicine would appreciate the terminology as it could be technical.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I picked up this book from my library stack to read at bedtime. It was so awful that I actually got out of bed to put it in the return stack. The introduction of the characters was appalling, entirely cliched, not a single original thought in it. I have seldom read such an awful beginning and I will definitely not be reading more.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Frankly I was a bit disappointed in this book. I have read Dr. Gupta's non fiction before and always enjoyed it. This novel is pretty straightforward and honestly, pretty trite. I like reading medical stuff, so I stayed with it. But I think the characters are a bit stereotyped and flat.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book, written by a surgeon, felt real and genuine. The stories - while fictional - were honest, human, and heartfelt. Very interesting and enjoyable - a fast and easy read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This novels seems more like non-fiction as it outlines some behind-the-scenes situations at a teaching hospital. The hospital is really the main character and is the most fully developed, while the personalities exist within the framework of their professions and relationships among each other. Nonetheless, this is an interesting glimpse of a world most of us don't get to see.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I give Sanjay (Dr, G.) so much credit for doing so many things with his life---and now, even writing a novel! Of course his opinions about medical issues come right through and what a wonderful way to present them through the lives of his characters It's a fast paced novel and you are immediately pulled in from the opening page. He could probably start all over again and do the same novel with another hospital with different characters and examples. Methinks he might just be too busy to BE a neurosurgeon these days but I also think he's terrific.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I expected nothing less from multi-talented Sanjay Gupta - CNN's chief medical correspondent and the author of 2 non-fiction books, as well as a practicing neurosurgeon and, now (!), an accomplished fiction writer. For me, the appeal in this book was in its objectivity and in restoring respect to medical profession at a time when one often hears cynical and narrow-minded remarks to the effect that doctors are just money-making machines... Mr. Gupta certainly drew from his own experience as a neurosurgeon - thus deep insight into the lives and personalities of his protagonists doctors, describing them just as they are - human beings with strong principles and incredible knowledge and skills, yet also prone to mistakes and faults like anybody else, except in their case mistakes can cost lives and lead to unimaginable soul-searching and doubt in one's abilities. An excellent debut novel, I hope he writes more.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book paints a very human face on the surgeons of the prestigious teaching hospital, Chelsea General. Interesting reading on the case histories of patients presented as well as the lives of these doctors. The book follows them through illnesses, regrets, affairs, mistakes, many which are exposed and answered for during the notorious and highly stressful Monday mornings. Interesting reading about the inner workings of this hospital and some of the moments were humorous as well.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Really my review of this book could be summed up in one word: fine. The story is that of several neurosurgeons who work at the same hospital. They’ve all got their own professional and personal demons to deal with, and certainly the book is not short on drama.Readers who love a good medical mystery will probably like this book. There’s quite a lot of medical terminology, but I think Mr. Gupta did a good job not talking down to the reader while also explaining what things were in an easy to understand way.Individually the story lines were as interesting as any prime time drama, but the whole thing felt a little cold to me. While there were plenty of descriptions of feelings and scenarios that should have choked me up, this very much felt like it was written by a doctor focusing on the details and forgetting to add the heart.Also, per FCC guidelines I hereby inform you that this is yet another book I received from the publisher at no cost.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Monday Mornings is about a group of six doctors in a fictional hospital called Chelsea General. These doctors come from all walks of life. There is Dr. George Villanueva, a divorced former NFL player with a young son whom he has nothing in common with; Dr. Tyler Wilson, a hotshot neurosurgeon whose ego gets in the way and costs a young boy his life. Dr. Tina Ridgeway who comes from a legacy. She's in a loveless marriage, has an affair with Dr. Wilson, and finds more comfort in working at a free clinic than at Chelsea.
Dr. Sung Park is the oldest with the most amount of experience having two surgical residencies under his belt. He's a workaholic but a medical ailment may cause him to see there more to life than medicine. Dr. Sydney Saxena has forsaken any semblance of a personal life for a chance to become Chief of Surgery. They all for under Dr. Harden Hooten, the Chief of Surgery and his Morbidity and Mortality. It happens every Monday mornings at 6am.
I was really surprised in how much I really enjoyed this novel. Honestly, my opinion was clouded on how boring the show on TNT was. I thought it was well-paced and through. Dr. Sanjay Gupta gave me some interesting insight to those M&M conferences. Those M&M conferences are ingenious! Surgeons learn from each other's fatal mistakes. I liked the characters except for Ridgeway. I felt that she was selfish. I really liked Saxena and Park. I admired their work ethics. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I was a big fan of ER when it aired, and this read like an episode or three of the show -- especially Park's GBM. Hello, Mark Greene. I felt the characters had good depth and grew appropriately attached to them, I especially liked El Gato.I felt Gupta rushed the end and tried to tie up everything too quickly and the time line skipped around a little too much -- Tina was attacked on the same night Gato broke up a fight between her attacker and his gf several chapters before? Overall, a nice, light read and I'd read more alone these lines.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book, written by a surgeon, felt real and genuine. The stories - while fictional - were honest, human, and heartfelt. Very interesting and enjoyable - a fast and easy read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The book had some really good parts in it. However, I have to say that in this case, I enjoyed the tv series more than the book. All in all, it is a good read, though.