When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

"Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating." —New York Times Book Review

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 ...