- Rival surgeons who killed patient after patient in their race to operate on beating hearts--and put us on the path toward the heart transplant
- A quartet of Canadians whose miraculous discovery of insulin was marred by jealousy and resentment
- The doctors who discovered penicillin, but were robbed of the credit
- The feud between two Americans in the quest for the polio vaccine
- A New York surgeon whose "heretical" idea to cure patients by deliberately infecting them has now inspired our next-best hope to defeat cancer
- A Hungarian doctor who solved the greatest mystery of maternal deaths in childbirth, only to be ostracized for his discovery
The Masters of Medicine is a fascinating chronicle of human courage, audacity, error, and luck. This riveting ode to mankind reveals why the past is prelude to the game-changing breakthroughs of tomorrow.