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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery

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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of NeurosurgeryWith 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

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.



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/17/2008
ISBN: 9780393330496
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citations: New Yorker (The) 05/18/2015 pg. 98
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