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With poignant insight and humour, "When the Air Hits Your Brain" chronicles a man's evolution from naive and ambitious young houseman 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 tumour in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia and a clergyman 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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Book category Books in English Medicine Surgery Neurosurgery

• Full title: When the Air Hits Your Brain
• Subtitle: Tales from Neurosurgery
• Author: Frank Vertosick
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780393330496
• ISBN: 0393330494
• ID: 04604538
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 216 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 141 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. April 2008

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