Among the most fascinating true-life stories one can ever read are tales from a hospital. They can be amusing or even shocking, but always enlightening about the complexity of society and human existence and that is what this book is all about. The author, Henry Winters, is a retired American surgeon with over four decades of experience working in large hospitals in three major cities of the United States, including New York. In this book, he shares intriguing details of some of the strangest cases he has ever come across. In a series of eloquent tales - emergency room stories, doctor stories, hospital stories and medical stories - Dr. Henry Winters tells of the craziest surgeries he has ever carried out and the weird items removed from the bodies of patients, particularly from the region of the ass. This book, A Doctor's Diary: Tales of Items Removed from People's Ass tackles what Dr. Winters refers to as the up-the-ass mystery. Key Terms: Doctor stories, Doctors without borders, Emergency room stories, Medical stories nonfiction, Hospital stories, Emergency room doctor, Hospital mysteries, Medical stories fiction, New York city, Doctor's orders, Medical stories nonfiction.