The Sky Was Falling - A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope

"The dramatic, cathartic diary of Dr. Cornelia Griggs--a young pediatric surgeon and the mother of two toddlers--as she worked on the front lines during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic at one of New York City's busiest hospitals"--

About the author

Dr. Cornelia Griggs is a triple board-certified pediatric surgeon. She completed medical school at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. She completed her adult general surgery residency and surgical critical care fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she currently practices. She is a graduate of Harvard College and earned a certificate in health policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her writing has been published in The New York Times and many top medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine.

Product details

• Authors: Cornelia Griggs, Cornelia Griggs
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2024
• EAN: 9781982168483
• ISBN: 978-1-9821-6848-3
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 231 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Memoirs, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, Infectious & contagious diseases, Autobiography: science, technology & medicine, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Infectious and contagious diseases, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (inc Patients)