Dr. Paul Ruggieri is a practicing surgeon specializing in general, advanced minimally invasive and thyroid surgery. He is the author or co-author of five books, including his newest book, The Cost of Cutting: A Surgeon’s Truth about a Billion Dollar Industry. In 2012, he wrote the nationally acclaimed Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated … Life Behind the O.R. Doors.