EPISODE · Sep 6, 2016 · 8H 43M
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery [Written by Frank T. Vertosick Jr. MD]
from Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture · host Frank T. Vertosick Jr. MD
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/316775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery Author: Frank T. Vertosick Jr. MD Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 7 Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy Publisher's Summary: 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 Vertosick's patients and unsparing yet fascinatingly detailed descriptions of surgical procedures, When the Air Hits Your Brain—the culmination of decades spent struggling to learn an unforgiving craft—illuminates both the mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/316775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery Author: Frank T. Vertosick Jr. MD Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 7 Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy Publisher's Summary: 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 Vertosick's patients and unsparing yet fascinatingly detailed descriptions of surgical procedures, When the Air Hits Your Brain—the culmination of decades spent struggling to learn an unforgiving craft—illuminates both the mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room.
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