Author:
Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
Format: Unabridged-MP3
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: Sep 2016
Genre: Medical - Surgery - Neurosurgery
Retail Price: $24.99
Discs: 1
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.