Well, Doc, It Seemed Like a Good Idea At The Time!: The Unexpected Adventures of a Trauma Surgeon

CELEBRATING MORE THAN 300 CONSECUTIVE WEEKS ATOP THE DOCTORS & MEDICINE HUMOR BESTSELLER CHARTS!

There are things a man doesn’t talk about. And then there are the things he writes down. No one would believe them otherwise. Meet Dr. Paul Waymack: trauma surgeon, burn specialist, military officer, and—for a time—Cold War envoy operating under presidential orders with Soviet agents watching his every move.

See the world’s dangers through the eyes of a man who is most at home when everyone else is falling apart. Imagine Larry David dropped into a Tom Clancy plot. Have you ever wondered how people live with what they've seen? This is the answer. One story at a time.

Well, Doc, It Seemed Like a Good Idea At The Time! is two decades’ worth of unfiltered, jaw-dropping, darkly hilarious true stories from the ER, the battlefield, the burn ward, and the bureaucratic hellscape of government medicine. Real-life Curb Your Enthusiasm set in hospitals, war zones, and Cold War Russia.

• A patient wakes up mid–open-heart surgery and grabs the surgeon’s head.
• A 700-lb patient is moved with a horse sling, an engine hoist, and surgeons' ingenuity.
• A woman is shot over burnt toast. Then her family starts a riot in the emergency room.
• Soviet doctors' idea of advanced burn care: unsterilized pig spleen and vodka.
• A surgeon performs a procedure he’s never attempted before because there’s no time not to.