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When the Air Hits Your Brain
- Narrator
- Kirby Heyborne
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 6 September 2016
- Run Time
- 8 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Frank T. Vertosick, Jr., MD
- Narrator
- Kirby Heyborne
- Duration
- 8 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 September 2016
- ISBN
- 9781515979159
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Biography: general, Neurosurgery, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Medicine: general issues, Surgery, History of medicine
Synopsis
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.
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