When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

Frank Vertosick Jr.

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The story of one man’s evolution from naive and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon. With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick Jr., MD, 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.

Categories:
Medicine – Neurology

Year:
2008

Edition:
Reprint

Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company

Language:
english

Pages:
272

ISBN 10:
0393330494

ISBN 13:
9780393330496

File:
EPUB, 261 KB