Michael J. Collins Md

About the Author

Michael J. Collins, MD, is a distinguished orthopedic surgeon whose literary debut draws directly from the high-stakes world of medicine. With over two decades of experience in the operating room, he offers an unflinching look at the trials of surgical training in his memoir Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years. Collins recounts his grueling internship at a major Chicago teaching hospital, where the relentless pace of emergencies, ethical dilemmas, and personal sacrifices tested the limits of endurance and compassion. A graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, he now practices in the suburbs of Chicago, channeling his frontline insights into writing that humanizes the often-glamorized profession of surgery while exposing its raw underbelly.