Another Day in the Frontal Lobe A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

Name: Another Day in the Frontal Lobe A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
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ISBN: 9780812973402

ISBN-10: 0812973402

ISBN-13: 9780812973402

Edition: Annotated

Authors: Katrina Firlik

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Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer-witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr. Firlik draws on this rare combination to create a neurosurgeon's Kitchen Confidential-a unique insider's memoir of a fascinating profession. Neurosurgeons are renowned for their big egos and aggressive self-confidence, and Dr. Firlik confirms that timidity is indeed rare in the field. "They're the kids who never lost at musical chairs, " she writes. A brain surgeon is not only a highly trained…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English




Scientist and Mechanic



Small World



Influences



Acceptance



Culture



Routine



Evolution Through Blood



Tools



Risk



Emotion



Disturbing Deviations



Slices



Fragments



Controlled Trauma



Traces of Thought



Focus



Chief Concerns



Endings



Confronting Age



Brainlifts


Acknowledgments


Notes