When the dreaded number "311.6" appears on a beeper's screen, doctors in the neurosurgery department at Chelsea General know that one of their colleagues is about to have a very bad day. As ER doctor George Villanueva explains to a curious intern at the teaching hospital, “Those numbers represent an invitation to the most secret and best-guarded meetings that ever take place in a hospital. Morbidity and Mortality, some call it. Others call it Death and Complications. I call it the Someone Effed Up Conference. " Monday morning at 6 am in room 311 is the traditional setting for the meeting, and the book Monday Mornings chronicles the lives and careers of 5 doctors at Chelsea General who find themselves reluctant participants in the
...
Find latest started threads
