When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery
by Frank Vertosick

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery
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Author: Frank Vertosick
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2008-03-24
ISBN: 0393330494
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: W. W. Norton

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Book Review: Best Medical Memoir Book!
Summary: 5 Stars

I have read many medical memoir books and this tops them all! I also recommend "Another Day in the Frontal Lobe" by Dr. Katrina Firlik.

Summary of When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

"Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating."—New York Times Book Review

With poignant insight and humor, When the Air Hits Your Brain chronicles one man's evolution from na?ve and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying detail, Frank Vertosick Jr. describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Told through intimate portraits of Vertosick's patients and unsparing yet fascinatingly detailed descriptions of surgical procedures, When the Air Hits Your Brain—the culmination of decades spent struggling to learn an unforgiving craft—illuminates both the mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room.

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