title: Our Transplant Journey: A Caregiver's Story
author:  Ron Moore 
description: Ron Moore lives with his wife Kathy in Knoxville, TN, where they are employees of The RM Group, Inc., a manufacturing management consulting company. Ron has also written two other books - Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence, and What Tool? When? A Management Guide for Selecting the Right Improvement Tools. He holds a BSME, MSME, and MBA.
zlib_text: A PLUME BOOK
  
  LAST NIGHT IN THE OR
  
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  Photo by Rebecca Shaw
  
  Born in 1950, BUD SHAW grew up the oldest child of a general surgeon in rural
  south central Ohio. He graduated with an AB in chemistry from Kenyon College
  in 1972 and received his MD degree from Case Western Reserve University School
  of Medicine in 1976. In 1981, he completed a surgery residency at the
  University of Utah, then trained in Pittsburgh under Tom Starzl, the father of
  liver transplantation. An internationally renowned transplant surgeon by age
  thirty-five, Shaw left Pittsburgh in 1985 to start a new transplant program in
  Nebraska that quickly became one of the most respected transplant centers in
  the world. An author of 300 journal articles and 50 book chapters, and a
  founding editor of the prestigious journal _Liver Transplantation_ , he
  retired from active practice and the department chairmanship in 2009 and now
  focuses on writing, teaching, and the value of narrative studi