How long does it take to read The Scalpel and the Silver Bear?
Lori Arviso Alvord
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear by Lori Arviso Alvord takes about 3 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 214 pages, about 58,850 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The author, the first Navajo woman surgeon, tells the story of how she was able to cut across cultural, class, and educational borders to become a part of the medical world; and discusses how she came to understand the power of Navajo thinking about health and illness to impact some of modern medicine's most daunting problems.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Navajo women, Navajo Indians, Women surgeons, Minorities in medicine, Women Physicians
