When the Air Hits Your Brain
Author(s): VERTOSICK
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.
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General Fields
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- : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- : 0.21092
- : 01 March 2008
- : .7 Inches X 5.5 Inches X 8.2 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : VERTOSICK
- : BC
- : 0804
- : English
- : 617.48092
- : 272