By Frank Vertosick Jr.
"Dramatic, relocating, and totally fascinating." —New York occasions publication Review
With poignant perception and humor, When the Air Hits Your Brain chronicles one man’s evolution from naïve and impressive younger intern to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying element, Frank Vertosick Jr. describes a few of the maximum demanding situations of his occupation, together with a six-week-old little one with a tumor in her mind, a tender guy struck down in his top via paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his cranium. advised via intimate pictures of Vertosick’s sufferers and unsparing but fascinatingly exact descriptions of surgical systems, When the Air Hits Your Brain—the fruits of many years spent suffering to profit an unforgiving craft—illuminates either the mysteries of the brain and the realities of the working room.
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