Monday Mornings

A novel about how surgeons cope with losing patients from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author and CNN Chief Medical Correspondent.

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 backdrop for the entire book.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta's Monday Mornings 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.

Basis for the David E. Kelley TV series

"The M & M conferences are depicted with blunt narrative force. . . . The book's moral tale is no less forceful." —Huffington Post