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When the Air Hits Your Brain

Tales from Neurosurgery

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An edition of When the Air Hits Your Brain (2008)

When the Air Hits Your Brain

Tales from Neurosurgery

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W. W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
272

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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery
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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

Introduction
1 The Rules of the Game
2 Slackers, Keeners, and Wild Cards
3 Thanks for Everything
4 A Night in the Street, a Night in the Chair
5 The Museum of Pain
6 Ailments Untreatable
7 Surgical Psychopaths
8 If It Was Easy, Everyone Would Do It
9 A Bit of Hard Cheese
10 Rebecca
11 Nightmares, Past and Future
12 The Wheel of Life
13 Belonging
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Paperback
Number of pages
272

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OL9321393M
ISBN 10
0393330494
ISBN 13
9780393330496
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191890605
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222603
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