When the Air Hits Your Brain Tales from Neurosurgery [Paperback]

Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating.By turns comic and tragic, this memoir&is a must-read for neurosurgeons but also of interest to most clinicians.Dr. Frank Vertosick provides an amusing, insightful and honest inside view of the training of the neurosurgeon. This highly readable account of daily life on the wards shows all the humility, fortitude, and humanity that genuinely underlies this sometimes not well-understood but genuinely wonderful profession.Writing with humor and compassion, but without sentimentality, Vertosick shows us that neurosurgeons, those gods of the operating room, are humans, too.The story of one man's evolution from na?ve and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon.