The first question Paige Williams had for author Jon Franklin was, "So, were you in the operating room during the surgery or some sort of viewing gallery?" Franklin, a former NASW board member, answers that question and others about his classic 1979 story about a brain surgeon and his patient's operating room death: “It wasn’t until four or five hours passed that I thought, 'Well, wait a minute, it’s a better story because she died,'” Franklin says.
August 26, 2012