Every year over 18,000,000 Americans

undergo noncosmetic surgery. The vast

majority face the operating room with

understandable anxiety, filled with doubts,

fears and questions that they are either

too timid or too embarrassed to ask or

which their doctors may brush aside.

Now Dr. Clarence J. Schein, Professor

of Surgery at Albert Einstein College of

Medicine and a Fellow of the American

College of Surgeons, has put in book

form the answers to more than 800 ques-

tions that prospective surgical patients

and their families most frequently ask.