When the Air Hits Your Brain - Brossura

Vertosick, Frank T.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0449227138 ISBN 13: 9780449227138

Casa editrice: Fawcett Books, 1997

Riassunto

A Pennsylvania neurosurgeon chronicles his evolution from a naive young intern to a world-class surgeon and his toughest challenges, from a six-week-old infant with a brain tumor to a minister with a bullet in his head. Reprint.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Frank Vertosick, Jr., M.D., is associate chief of neurosurgery and associate director of the Center for Neuro-oncology at Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

ook 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."
--Publisher

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Fawcett Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0449227138
• ISBN 13: 9780449227138
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288