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With poignant insight and laughter, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the best challenges of his job, including a six-week-old baby with a tumor in her brain, a man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Told through close portraits of Vertosick's patients and unsparing-yet-fascinatingly detailed descriptions of surgical procedures, When the Air Hits Your Brain - the culmination of years spent battling to learn an unforgiving art - illuminates both mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room.
