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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

by KatrinaSFirlik (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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Synopsis

As Katrina Firlik says in her introduction, if you are about to go under the knife, you don't care if your surgeon has published a paper in Nature or New Scientist - what you really need is a good brain mechanic and preferably a swift one. In this absorbing and compelling book she opens wide the doors of the operating theatre and invites the reader into the weird and often wonderful world of brain surgery. Using individual stories as the starting point for each chapter - such as the carpenter with a nail in his head or the man with maggots on the brain - she looks at the technical versus the intellectual side of brain surgery, what kind of person becomes a brain surgeon, the tools of the trade, a 'day at the office', the ethics and dilemmas of surgery and the future including 'designer' brains.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: Paperback of Brain Matters
 Publisher: W&N
Published: 15 Feb 2007
ISBN 10: 0753821524
ISBN 13: 9780753821527
Book Overview: As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week ER, Casualty, House, Grey's Anatomy etc - there is a fascination for what really goes on inside the operating theatre 'Doctors are notorious for their black humour and Firlik is no exception. She writes with wit and style... Brain-curdling stuff' Iain Finlayson, The Times 'From page one you will be unable to prevent yourself from being gripped by Firlik's horribly fascinating account of her gory job... in a no-nonsense chatty style... her book is both fascinating and informative, packed with reassuring descriptions of modern medical marvels and surgical advances' Val Hennessy, Daily Mail

Author Bio
Katrina Firlik completed her residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the largest and most prestigious neurosurgery department in the US and was the first woman admitted to the programme. She then went on to complete a fellowship at Yale and is now an Assistant Professor there as well as having her own private practice. She is 35 years old and this is her first book.