Full name: When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

Author: Frank Vertosick Jr. Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: Amazon LibraryThing Goodreads ISBNs: 9780393330496 0393330494

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. Similar books: Another Day in the Frontal Lobe by Katrina Firlik Brain Surgeon by Keith Black Hot Lights, Cold Steel by Michael J. Collins Do No Harm by Henry Marsh Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives by Pamela Grim Internal Medicine by Terrence Holt Intern by Sandeep Jauhar The Making of a Surgeon by William A. Nolen Singular Intimacies by Danielle Ofri Something for the Pain by Paul Austin His Brother's Keeper by Jonathan Weiner Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor by Max Pemberton Complications by Atul Gawande One Doctor by Brendan Reilly MD The Intern Blues by Robert Marion