
When the Air Hits Your Brain
Tales from Neurosurgery
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Kirby Heyborne
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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Neurosurgeons may appear to be blunt, unapologetic superheroes (as they are better with matters of the brain, rather than the heart), but these professionals rise to the top of their fields , sparing no emotions, especially their own, to give people everything. Putting excessive emotions in the back seat is a part of caring for the patient who is a less than a millimeter away from death during an operation. Pushing the boundaries of what it is means to be alive, dead and human , they play with the most valuable organ in the human body hoping to preserve and salvage what it means to be human.
This book lifts away the blanket of mysticism that covers these heroic servants to show us that even superman fails, cries, shuts down, and breaks. I enjoyed every part of peeking over the surgeon's shoulder and into his heart.
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2 Brain Surgeries
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Makes you appreciate life
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Very Interesting Book!
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Touching and Emotional
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Great story/narrator
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Excellent book. Interesting, human, sincere
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It is the best one so far - so involving , it was almost not good choice for driving!What did you like best about this story?
Not only the tales, but also the unique perspective on each of them! Hated for it to end!Have you listened to any of Kirby Heyborne’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
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Just so interesting!Any additional comments?
Best medical stories book I have read or listened to.Great tales and perspective!
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