Doctor’s Notes

Book Signings & Appearances for Counting Backwards

NOVEMBER 30: Book Talk at the International Museum of Surgical Science 6:30PM CT: Book reading and talk followed by a Q&A 1524 N Lake Shore Drive | Chicago, IL 60610 | Hall of Immortals Get tickets here. DECEMBER 5: Book Signing at the Center for Bioethics and...

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Listen Live on Sirius & Tune in, North Carolina – November 13

National If you're a Sirius XM subscriber, please tune in to my live interview with Dr. Jonathan Whiteson on the Rehabilitative Medicine show at 7:30am  ET / 6:30 am CT. Channel 110 "Doctor Radio" is powered by NYU Langone Health. Missed the first broadcast? It will...

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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...

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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...

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