When the Air Hits Your Brain
Subtitle: Tales from Neurosurgery
By: Frank Vertosick Jr., MD
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: March 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780393330496
Subjects: Science: General Issues; Surgery - General; Medical / Surgery / General; Medical; Medical / Nursing
First sentence: Introduction: Neurosurgery is an arrogant occupation.
Chapter 1: July 1.  Neurosurgery residency.  Day one.  Five A.M.  A sickening wave of déjà vu flooded over me as I looked at the automatic doors to the "porch," the neurosurgical step-down unit.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: 1   The Rules of the Game; value: 2   Slackers, Keeners, and Wild Cards; value: 3   Thanks for Everything; value: 4   A Night in the Street, a Night in the Chair; value: 5   The Museum of Pain; value: 6   Ailments Untreatable; value: 7   Surgical Psychopaths; value: 8   If It Was Easy, Everyone Would Do It; value: 9   A Bit of Hard Cheese; value: 10  Rebecca; value: 11  Nightmares, Past and Future; value: 12  The Wheel of Life; value: 13  Belonging; value: Postscript