As a medical student in the 1960s, Anthony Goodman's dream was to be a surgeon and a healer. In Great Saves and Terrible Losses, Goodman tells the stories of teachers and professors who encouraged and inspired that dream.

He depicts memorable surgical cases to help readers comprehend the challenges encountered by surgeons providing comprehensive care in environments where life-and-death decisions are made day after day, night after night. He also brings to life the joy and despair he faced while endeavoring to provide the highest standards of care.

His wide range of experiences took him to the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, the hospital ship SS Hope in Jamaica, a medical school in New Zealand, and elsewhere—doing work united by the core values of kindness, compassion, and the medical maxim primum, non nocere, "above all, do no harm." Recently diagnosed with early mild Alzheimer's disease, Goodman has entered a new chapter of his life—as a patient seeking medical care.

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