Routine Checkup: The Tenth Nerve – A Brain Surgeon's Stories of the Patients Who Changed Him

EPISODE · Feb 16, 2022 · 55 MIN

Routine Checkup: The Tenth Nerve – A Brain Surgeon's Stories of the Patients Who Changed Him

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Dr. Chris Honey, an accomplished neurosurgeon at Vancouver General Hospital, weaves his personal journey together with case studies that reflect the thrill of scientific discovery and the limitations of medicine. Operating on a terminally ill child amid an Ebola outbreak in Liberia, he questions his preconceptions about what it means to "win" against a disease and how an unusual friendship with a former patient alters his perspective on clinical detachment, and what "quality of life" really means. The Tenth Nerve is available as an e-book, audio book, and hardcover https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/688025/the-tenth-nerve-by-dr-chris-honey/9781039001190

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Routine Checkup: The Tenth Nerve – A Brain Surgeon's Stories of the Patients Who Changed Him

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