Cutting For Stone

There was too much medical detail, and too much sidetracking during intense scenes. I listened to the audiobook so maybe it's different had I been able to skip ahead in a book, but it would drive me crazy when we'd be in the middle of a surgery, when there were obvious actions that needed to be taken, and the details upon details that were given about misc. people involved in the action and sidetracks we went down would drive me crazy. Get back to the scene – you don't have an hour to discourse about some random event when the patient is dying waiting on you to begin the surgery!!! Plus, I'd often find myself almost sick to my stomach listening to the gory details I really really didn't care to hear. But there were many beautifully written lines and descriptions that kept me listening through hours and hours of tapes... took 2 weeks of commuting to hear it all.