Pathologists call themselves the "doctors' doctors." Sometimes 
they tell the surgeon where to cut while the patient lies on the 
table. They tell the pediatrician whether her young patient has 
leukemia. They give the ob-gyn good news. In The Doctors' 
Doctors, we join the faculty and staff of the Department to wade 
through flood waters, provide blood products to the Shah of Iran in 
Egypt, and shield Howard Hughes' corpse from the media. We learn 
what it's like to be a pathology resident and why pathologists choose 
their field. We visit the legends of Baylor's pathology department. The 
Doctors' Doctors follows the rise of the Department from its beginnings 
in Houston during World War II, when it had a staff of two in part of a
former Sears store, to its current staff of 329 working in 21,000 square 
feet of space. In many ways, the story of the Department's rise and 
expansion mirrors the story of medicine in the twentieth century. 
Author Amy Storrow interviewed more than fifty people—pathologists, 
research physicians, blood processing technicians, administrative 
assistants—to weave together a portrait of the Department in its 
members' own words. 

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AMY STORROW's work has appeared on National Public Radio and 
in Saveur, The Massachusetts Review, Gettysburg Review, and 
many other publications. In 1995 she had a notable essay in Best 
American Essays. She has twice won individual artist awards from 
the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County, as well as a 
PEN/Texas award.



What people are saying about this book

"I don't know how many times I have been called into the operating 
room, when the patient's asleep obviously and doesn't know what's 
going on. The surgeon will ask me, 'Rudy, what do I do? Should I 
take more tissue? You tell me—what do I do?" At that moment in 
time, I have the responsibility for that patient's life."—Rudy 
Laucirica, M.D.

"Our most important task for the future, one to which we must 
respond if we are to continue to lead in pathology, is to identify, 
attract, and educate able young people."—Michael Lieberman, 
M.D., Ph.D.