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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

   Author(s): Frank Vertosick   

        Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Year: 2008   

                                        

 Description: 

The tale of the transformation of one man from a naive, ambitious young intern to a world-class neurosurgeon.

Frank Vertosick Jr., MD, explains some of the toughest struggles of his lifetime with poignant wisdom and laughter, including a six-week-old boy with a tumour in his head, a young man afflicted by paraplegia in his youth, and a minister with a .22 calibre bullet stuck in his skull. When the Air Hits The Brain, the culmination of decades of struggling to master an unforgiving craft, illuminates both the complexities of the mind and the reality of the operating room, told by personal images of Vertosick's patients and unsparing but fascinatingly thorough explanations of surgical procedures.

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