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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

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Kirby Heyborne
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Ratings
Book
14
Narrator
7
Release Date
September 6, 2016
Duration
8 hours 43 minutes
Summary
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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Profile Avatar Carol May 2024

I loved this book though I may be biased. I survived two open cranial surgeries in one year for 3 aneurysms. One at each temple and one between the hemispheres. I wanted to understand their perspectives and it was an eye opener. I learned much more about the approach to such surgeries and how they affect the doctor doing them. I came away with a much clearer understanding of how they view death despite their best efforts. The brain is an amazing organ and its resilience is amazing. Well worth a listen!

Profile Avatar Lisa S. Jul 2023

Neurosurgery in a nutshell. Very well written, touches many subjects concerning human life, ethics and behavior

Profile Avatar Chai T. Nov 2022

The book describes the thoughts of a brain surgeon with a compassion heart.

Profile Avatar Kate B. Jun 2022

Loved the book. Great mix of informative but captivating. This was my first audiobook and I am worried now no other book will be quite as good. Narrator was easy to understand and had a very “not annoying” voice haha

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

Author: Frank T. Vertosick Jr. MD
Read by: Kirby Heyborne
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