Chicago, Illinois – August 27, 2026 – With the rise of medicine’s ever more reliance on less invasive techniques, imaging technology, robots, and protocols, one memoir by Sherman A. Katz, MD looks at how the changing face of medicine has affected the practice of surgery. Through his experiences working in the operating rooms, hospitals, medical schools, private practices, academia, and even in a prison clinic, Dr. Katz offers us a glimpse into an era of medicine that is fast becoming obsolete.

The story revolves around the evolution of surgery from a craft that revolves significantly around open surgeries, physical examinations, apprenticeships, personal judgment, and practical experience to one where technology, regulations, system, and corporations have taken a center stage. This is not an attack on the development of medicine but an attempt to think about what needs to be saved in light of new developments.

In this story, issues relating to compassion, accountability, judgment, humility, mentoring, rivalry, and the emotional impact of taking care of critically ill patients are very much at the forefront. The experiences narrated also shed light on how surgeons learned from their successes and failures, how medicine molded their identities, and how shifts in expectations changed doctor-patient relations.

• A firsthand account of major changes in surgical practice across several decades.
• Reflections on compassion and human connection in increasingly technological medicine.
• Inside perspectives on surgical training, mentorship, judgment, competition, and professional culture.
• Experiences spanning vascular surgery, private practice, academic medicine, and prison health care.
• Consideration of what medical progress gains while asking which older professional values remain worth preserving.

A useful book for the health care professional, student, patient, and historian alike, the memoir provides a personal account of an industry experiencing major transformations amid one timeless query: how does medicine progress without forgetting the individual receiving the service?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Dr. Sherman A. Katz, MD, FACS is a vascular surgeon celebrating his fiftieth year in surgery and is now partially retired. He has experienced many changes in the practice of surgery in his fifty years, going from doing operations that had not changed for 100 years to the new technologies of surgery involving lasers, instruments with electronic chips and remote presence with robots.

BOOK INFORMATION:

Book Name: A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure: A Surgical Swan Song

Author Name: Sherman A. Katz MD FACS

ISBN Number: 978-1968615338

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