Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.89 (915 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0446198145 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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I really enjoyed this book Cw P. I really enjoyed this book. It was an intelligent and insight description of what it takes to be not only an excellent brain surgeon but one that had faith in his skills and the strength that is needed to be one of his patients. He not only relied on his skills to perform these difficult su. "Five Stars" according to Thor. Great read!. "Wonderful book should be made into a movie!" according to Eddie Cleland. Being a patient of his probably makes me an unfair favorable bias towards this great doctor. I read the book in one sitting. I could'nt put it down! It reads like a great movie. Not hard for non medical types like myself. A very interesting life story and everyday life of a top neurosurgeon
Black's white-knuckle descriptions of some of the most astonishing medical procedures performed today, he reveals the beauty and marvel of the human brain and the strength and heroism of his patients who refuse to see themselves as victims. This is the terrain world-renowned neurosurgeon Keith Black, MD, enters every day to produce virtual medical miracles. Through Dr. Along the way, he shares his unique insights about the inner workings of the brain, his unwavering optimism for the future of medicine, and the extraordinary stories of his patients-from ministers and rock stars to wealthy entrepreneurs and uninsured students-whom he celebrates as the real heroes. Welcome to tiger country: the treacherous territory where a single wrong move by a brain surgeon can devastate-or end-a patient's life. BRAIN SURGEON offers a window into one man's remarkable mind, revealing the anatomy of the unflinching confidence of this master surgeon, whose personal journey brought him from life as a young African-American boy growing up in the civil rights era South to the elite world of neurosurgery. Now, in BRAIN SURGEON, Dr. Ultimately, BRAIN SURGEON is an inspiring story of the struggle to overcome odds-whether as a man, a doctor, or a patient.. Black invites readers to shadow his breathtaking journeys into the brain as he battles some of the deadliest and most feared tumors known to medical science
All rights reserved. . Black is equally skilled as an author, alternating incisive writing about incisions with his personal memoir, insightful and inspirational. 25)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly Black, chair of the department of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, reflects on his extraordinary life and career. Introducing the reader to his colleagues and patients, Black tours the interior of the brain with detailed a