Shoot the Moon: The True Story of a Look Behind the Curtain of Medical School and Residency...and Surviving the Worst in Life - Hardcover

Carl P. Giordano MD; M. Rutledge McCall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 099801740X ISBN 13: 9780998017402

Publisher: Bkg Publishing House, 2017

Synopsis

Few passengers are the sole walk-away survivors of catastrophic airplane crashes. Based on a true story, this is the account of a noted spine surgeon who was involved in a horrific and tragic crash, yet walked away from flaming wreckage so crushed it wasn't even recognizable as an aircraft.     Many people think they have seen enough physician and hospital shows on TV to understand the life of a physician. But how many know what goes into the actual making of a surgeon? What happens during years of medical school training, followed by years of residency, followed by years of fellowship specialty training? This book lays it all out. And more.     The unforeseen, violent experience Giordano was thrust into would produce profound character development and a frightening personal understanding of just how precious life is. This true story pulls back the curtain of the making of a surgeon and takes the audience through the "granite halls of medical school" and residency...on a very unusual pathway. Intertwined throughout this true story is the recounting of how Dr. Giordano was involved in a horrific incident--and how his medical training was the key to his avoiding the lethal outcome.     If you have any interest in pursuing medicine as a profession, this book will guide you. If you want to have a better understanding of what it s like to attend medical school and residency, this book will show you. And if you want to understand how a spinal surgeon learned how it's possible to walk away from a plane crash as the sole survivor, this book will mesmerize you.     Giordano's true story details the gritty, years-long events that go into the making of a spine surgeon, and how that unique training was the foundation that would one day enable Giordano to calmly deal with a disaster. In the end, the audience will have to decide for themselves: did he live to tell about an experience that most people would admit there is no way they could have survived, and was he able to survive by his own abilities or by the hand of God? Or was it perhaps a little bit of both.     One thing is certain: he had no choice in what happened, yet he faced it head-on...and lived to tell his riveting story.

About this title

From the Author:

Once in awhile in our lives we come across a true story that is so incredible that it boggles the imagination. At least, until we dig deeper and investigate the circumstances, and we come to realize that what at first had amazed and even mesmerized us begins to make sense.
     This is one of those stories. It's the story of a man who achieves professional heights not unlike others do in their careers. But then, something extraordinary happens to him, something that some would call chance or fate or even a freak accident, yet which is actually less complex. And far more wondrous.
     Dr. Carl Giordano is an extraordinary man. He is a member of a profession that many people believe somehow creates little "gods" by virtue of the fact that what they do is to save lives and improve health. What makes Carl's story so unusual is that, whether by the incidents related this book, or by his upbringing with loving parents, or by his own natural spirit, Carl has an outlook and a spirit that flies somewhere above the pack. He is humble, funny, hardworking, exceptionally intelligent, and has a heart and attitude of caring for people, all of which could be seen as a rarity among his fellow physicians.
     So, you will have to decide for yourself whether he lived to tell about an experience that most people would admit there is no way they could have survived, and whether he was able to survive by his own abilities or by the hand of God. Or perhaps a little bit of both. But just know this: he had no choice in what happened, yet he faced it head-on...and he is here to tell you his incredible story.
     It is a pleasure and an honor to know Carl Giordano and to have served him in helping put together this amazing true story.
- M. Rutledge McCall

About the Author:

CARL P. GIORDANO was born and raised in Morristown, NJ. He graduated Cum Laude from Villanova University in 1982, completed medical training at Rutgers Medical School in 1986, and went on for further post doctoral training in New York City at Beth Israel Medical Center and New York University Medical Center. He completed an orthopedic residency training program at The Hospital for Joint Diseases in 1993, where he was awarded the resident teaching award in 1990 and received the Marian Frauenthal Sloane Award for outstanding orthopedic clinical research in 1993.      He became board certified in orthopedic surgery in 1996, and by the American Board of Spine Surgery in 1998. He is presently a member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, American Board of Spine Surgeons, North American Spine Society, the American Medical Association, the NJ Orthopedic Society, the Morris County Orthopedic Society and the Medical Society of New Jersey. He was elected to the consumer research counsel of America's Top Surgeons 2002 to 2003, as well as New Jersey Top Docs in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016.   
M. RUTLEDGE McCALL, who also wrote the screen adaptation of the book, has written, ghostwritten and developmentally edited over 100 books for a high-profile worldwide clientele. His critically-acclaimed first book Slipping Into Darkness was published in 2000, and was later optioned for film by David Sacks, Co-Founder of PayPal, based on McCall's script. 
    McCall has been featured on TV shows including NBC Today, BBC News, PBS, CNN News, KNBC News Nightside Cover Story, PBS/KCET Life And Times: Thinkers, Shakers and Newsmakers, Larry King Live, ABC News 9 Australia and others.
    Earlier in his career, McCall worked in the one-hour drama writers departments for most of the US TV networks and in production management for many of the major US film companies on some of the highest-grossing movies and top Nielsen-rated dramas. 
    See endorsements of his writing at: MRutledgeMcCall.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Bkg Publishing House
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 099801740X
• ISBN 13: 9780998017402
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192