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: 9781400063208

ISBN-10: 1400063205

ISBN-13: 9781400063208

Edition: 2006 (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 neurosurgeons Kitchen Confidential-a unique insiders 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. "Theyre the kids who never lost at musical chairs," she writes. A brain surgeon is not only a highly trained…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/2/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
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