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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 617
EAN: 9780393330496
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0393330494
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: March 24, 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
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Editorial Review:
"Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating."—New York Times Book ReviewWith poignant insight and humor, When the Air Hits Your Brain chronicles one man's evolution from naïve and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying detail, Frank Vertosick Jr. 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.
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Rating: - Best Medical Memoir Book!
I have read many medical memoir books and this tops them all! Having shadowed a neurosurgeon for years, this book is a very accurate depiction of the job. Dr. Vertosick is a witty story teller who bears all honesty about the ups and downs of neurosurgery residency. The chapter entitled "Rebecca" is very moving although I disagree that pediatric neurosurgery is as miserable as he says. I also recommend "Another Day in the Frontal Lobe" by Dr. Katrina Firlik.
Rating: - When the air hits your brain
This book is phenomenal. The author's recount of his neurosurgery training is both gripping and funny. Some of the patients he treated and what happened to them will be forever engraved in my mind. Highly recommended.
Rating: - "Neurosurgeons do things that cannot be undone."
Originally published in 1996, "When the Air Hits Your Brain," by Dr. Frank Vertosick, is a mesmerizing insider's look at "an arrogant occupation" whose practitioners operate on the spinal cord and the human brain ("a trillion nerve cells storing electrical patterns more numerous than the water molecules of the world's oceans"). A neurosurgeon must be supremely confident in his ability to get the job done; if he were to dwell on everything that could possibly go wrong during a procedure, he would ... Read More
Rating: - Very well written
I enjoyed reading this book a lot. This is not a type of book I am used to reading but it is very well written. The subject is very intersting and Mr. Vertosick makes it very easy to understand for people like me, who does not know a lot about subject.
Rating: - Gets you inside a surgeon's brain....
I highly recommend this book. I am an R.N. and my husband is an electrical engineer and neither of us could put the book down. I've read it twice already. It's very well-written and shows a side of surgeons you never see in the hospital.
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