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| Plot Summary of When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery |
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"With unflagging good humor and unexpected humility, neurosurgeon Vertosick describes his training and experiences. The book explains the workings and trials of the brain in clear lay terms, and Vertosick has a knack for the startling turn of phrase that either makes a point or keeps you reading to reach understanding: "The medicine rotation introduced me to the awesome authority invested in physicians: the power to violate another human being -- legally." "In a trauma, the skull turns from a brain's protector to its murderer, and, finally, to its coffin." "Cancer is a biological process which has evolved for a very useful purpose: to kill us." Watch Vertosick wrestle with his emotions as he labors to keep a pregnant woman with a terminal brain tumor alive long enough to bring her baby to term...."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Training/promotions story
Yes
Life of a profession:
- doctor
Family, caring for ill
Yes
Job/Profession/Status story
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 40's-50's
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 1 ()
United States
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Amount of dialog
- little dialog
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