When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery

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.

Author: Frank Vertosick
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/17/2008
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780393330496