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Reviewed by Kamil Wróbel for Readers' Favorite
That Will Never Do! by Ralph V. Clayman, MD, is a thoughtful medical memoir that explores the unique career of a surgeon whose ultimate goal was actually to make traditional incisions obsolete. Shaped by a demanding childhood and a constant search for his father’s approval, Clayman poured his energy into the early days of endourology. This memoir does a wonderful job of tracing his path from an ambitious young student into a true medical pioneer who helped move urology away from traumatic ten-inch incisions and toward non-incisional, natural-orifice methods. He openly shares how he managed professional skepticism, built up foundational training programs, and eventually stepped up to rescue a medical school facing a major financial deficit. It’s really remarkable to see how a single critical comment early in his training sparked a multi-decade career that helped advance modern healthcare.
That Will Never Do! by Ralph V. Clayman, MD, is a thoroughly engaging memoir that draws you into the realities of a surgeon’s life. The chapters become particularly fascinating as they unpack the real-world experimentation behind Clayman’s medical discoveries, highlighting how ordinary items like a pair of running shorts and cheap air syringes were cleverly repurposed into crucial tools for modern surgical safety. There is a real openness in the way he shares his philosophy of pronoia—the intentional mindset that people are secretly plotting your success—which gives his reflections a highly encouraging, constructive tone. Clayman’s clear dedication to patient compassion transforms what might have been a clinical list of achievements into a very human look at what happens when doctors focus on individual families instead of just medical numbers. Anyone interested in how practical creativity can ease human pain will find much value in these pages. Very highly recommended.
