When the Air Hits Your Brain, 1st Edition
Tales from Neurosurgery
$23.76
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2010
Summary
“Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating.” —New York Times Book Review
With 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 minis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393330496 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0393330494 |
| Author: | Frank Vertosick, Frank Vertosick, Jr. |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 140mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
“Writing with humor and compassion, but without sentimentality, Vertosick shows us that neurosurgeons, those gods of the operating room, are humans, too.”
“Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating.” – New York Times Book Review “Riveting.” – Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Frank Vertosick
Frank Vertosick Jr., MD, is the author of Why We Hurt and When the Air Hits Your Brain. He retired from surgery due to Parkinson’s disease in 2002, but he still treats office patients in Washington, Pennsylvania.
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