When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery Audiobook (Free)

With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes a number of the very best problems of his career, including a six-week-old baby with a tumor in her mind, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister using a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Told through intimate portraits of Vertosick’s individuals and unsparing yet fascinatingly detailed explanations of surgical treatments, When the environment Hits Your Brain-the culmination of years spent struggling to learn an unforgiving craft-illuminates both the mysteries of the mind as well as the realities of the operating room.