The Hour of the Brave

A moving and deeply human book that will change your view of medicine forever.

Rafael Hernández Estefanía, a prestigious surgeon, narrates with warmth and empathy everything that happens behind the closed door of the operating room. La hora de los valientes (The Hour of the Brave) is an exciting journey through what occurs from the moment a patient knows they will need surgery until they are discharged.

Surgery, an unknown world, is a source of endless clichés, false myths, and unfounded speculations. This book puts an end to them and describes the real experience with rigor and immense humanity, because medicine is, above all, a human science.