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Dewey Decimal Number: 617 EAN: 9780449227138 ISBN: 0449227138 Label: Fawcett Manufacturer: Fawcett Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: April 28, 1997 Publisher: Fawcett Release Date: April 28, 1997 Studio: Fawcett Editorial Review: Product Description: "This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In other words, by all of us." --Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine and Miracles Rule One for the neurologist in residence: "You ain't never the same when the air hits your brain." In this fascinating book, Dr. Frank Vertosick brings that fact to life through intimate portraits of patients and unsparing yet gripping descriptions of brain surgery. With insight, humor, and poignancy, Dr. Vertosick chronicles his remarkable evolution from naive young intern to world-class neurosurgeon, where he faced, among other challenges, 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. In candid detail, WHEN THE AIR HITS YOUR BRAIN illuminates both the mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room. "Riveting." --Publishers Weekly Average Rating:
 Rating: - Best Medical Memoir Book!I have read many medical memoir books and this tops them all! I also recommend "Another Day in the Frontal Lobe" by Dr. Katrina Firlik. Rating: - When the air hits your brainThis book is phenomenal. The author's recount of his neurosurgery training is both gripping and funny. Some of the patients he treated and what happened to them will be forever engraved in my mind. Highly recommended. Rating: - "Neurosurgeons do things that cannot be undone."Originally published in 1996, "When the Air Hits Your Brain," by Dr. Frank Vertosick, is a mesmerizing insider's look at "an arrogant occupation" whose practitioners operate on the spinal cord and the human brain ("a trillion nerve cells storing electrical patterns more numerous than the water molecules of the world's oceans"). A neurosurgeon must be supremely confident in his ability to get the job done; if he were to dwell on everything that could possibly go wrong during a procedure, he would ... Read More Rating: - Very well writtenI enjoyed reading this book a lot. This is not a type of book I am used to reading but it is very well written. The subject is very intersting and Mr. Vertosick makes it very easy to understand for people like me, who does not know a lot about subject. Rating: - Gets you inside a surgeon's brain....I highly recommend this book. I am an R.N. and my husband is an electrical engineer and neither of us could put the book down. I've read it twice already. It's very well-written and shows a side of surgeons you never see in the hospital. |
