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When the Air Hits Your Brain

Tales from Neurosurgery

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When the Air Hits Your Brain

Written by: Frank T Vertosick Jr. MD
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
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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.

©2008 Frank T. Vertosick, Jr., MD (P)2016 Tantor Medical Medicine & Health Care Industry Professionals & Academics Brain Surgery

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"A riveting report that shatters the mystique of the brain surgeon as a wizard of technical prowess." ( Publishers Weekly)
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For anyone who is interested in medical drama this is a great listen. It's engaging, entertaining, informative and soul stirring .. great narration too

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