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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery Book

When the Air Hits Your Brain Chronicles the author's evolution from naive and ambitious young houseman to world-class neurosurgeon. This book describes some of the challenges of the author's career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumour in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia and a clergyman with a.22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Full descriptionRead More

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  • Foyles

    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.

  • Waterstones

    Chronicles the author's evolution from naive and ambitious young houseman to world-class neurosurgeon. This book describes some of the challenges of the author's career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumour in her brain, a young man struck d

  • Blackwell

    Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating. -New York Times Book Review With poignant insight and humour, When the Air Hits Your Brain chronicles a man's evolution from naive and ambitious young houseman to world-class neurosurgeon.

  • 0393330494
  • 9780393330496
  • F Vertosick
  • 15 April 2008
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • 1
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