When the Air Hits Your Brain Tales from Neurosurgery

Name: When the Air Hits Your Brain Tales from Neurosurgery
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ISBN: 9780393330496

ISBN-10: 0393330494

ISBN-13: 9780393330496

Edition: 2008

Authors: Frank Jr Vertosick, Frank Vertosick

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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 nave 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 Brainthe culmination of decades spent…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English



Introduction



The Rules of the Game



Slackers, Keeners, and Wild Cards



Thanks for Everything



A Night in the Street, a Night in the Chair



The Museum of Pain



Ailments Untreatable



Surgical Psychopaths



If It Was Easy, Everyone Would Do It



A Bit of Hard Cheese



Rebecca



Nightmares, Past and Future



The Wheel of Life



Belonging


Postscript