When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Surgery, Neurosurgery
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Author: Frank Vertosick Jr. ISBN: 9780393344028
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: March 17, 2008
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Frank Vertosick Jr.
ISBN: 9780393344028
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: March 17, 2008
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

"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 naïve 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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"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 naïve 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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