Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Registered by DrSlump612 of Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on 9/7/2013
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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From the Nokomis Library book sale.
Given by DrSlump612 for the Medicine Chest. Thanks!
First 3/4 of the book is really fascinating. Basically a 'what I did as a neurosurgeon resident'. Last bit disappointing. I think she sold out and is justifying her career in what sounds like the Hamptons doing spinal surgery on arthritic old and rich spines. Oh well, someone has to earn 6 to 7 figure incomes. Still well worth reading.
First 3/4 of the book is really fascinating. Basically a 'what I did as a neurosurgeon resident'. Last bit disappointing. I think she sold out and is justifying her career in what sounds like the Hamptons doing spinal surgery on arthritic old and rich spines. Oh well, someone has to earn 6 to 7 figure incomes. Still well worth reading.
Put into The Medicine Chest Bookbox IV to look for a new reader!
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I'm taking this from the Medicine Chest bookbox, even allowing for a possibly disappointing conclusion {wry grin}.
Later: I enjoyed this, from the opening in which the author thoughtfully describes the consistency of the brain (toothpaste? Not quite right, as "...it doesn't spread like toothpaste"; tofu is closer, something I may remember next time I reach for the tofu in the supermarket!) through the many ups and downs of practice. Her descriptions of real-world brain trauma and its aftereffects are in stark contrast to so many dramatized versions - and, at one point, there's a very jolly bit in which a dinner guest, learning that she was a neurosurgeon, asked whether the horrifying dinner scene at the end of the film Hannibal was physically possible. He'd made a bet that it wasn't, and was eager to hear her views on the matter. (She said it was highly unlikely to have resulted in anything but the immediate bleeding-to-death of the patient, but perhaps she wasn't allowing for Lecter's surgical genius {wry grin}.)
There were anecdotes about antique bone-drills used for trepanation, about the use of the bone dust resulting from drilling (and of its distinctive scent), about patients whose ultimate fate she never learned because her surgical rotation took her out of their lives... And several concerning the problems of communicating with patients and loved ones, something that requires many talents not necessarily needed for excellence in the operating room. All in all, I enjoyed the book very much. Thanks for sharing this one!
Later: I enjoyed this, from the opening in which the author thoughtfully describes the consistency of the brain (toothpaste? Not quite right, as "...it doesn't spread like toothpaste"; tofu is closer, something I may remember next time I reach for the tofu in the supermarket!) through the many ups and downs of practice. Her descriptions of real-world brain trauma and its aftereffects are in stark contrast to so many dramatized versions - and, at one point, there's a very jolly bit in which a dinner guest, learning that she was a neurosurgeon, asked whether the horrifying dinner scene at the end of the film Hannibal was physically possible. He'd made a bet that it wasn't, and was eager to hear her views on the matter. (She said it was highly unlikely to have resulted in anything but the immediate bleeding-to-death of the patient, but perhaps she wasn't allowing for Lecter's surgical genius {wry grin}.)
There were anecdotes about antique bone-drills used for trepanation, about the use of the bone dust resulting from drilling (and of its distinctive scent), about patients whose ultimate fate she never learned because her surgical rotation took her out of their lives... And several concerning the problems of communicating with patients and loved ones, something that requires many talents not necessarily needed for excellence in the operating room. All in all, I enjoyed the book very much. Thanks for sharing this one!
I'm adding this to a box of books that's going to BCer Tribefan in Ohio, for the Akron Reading Festival in February. Enjoy!
*** Released as part of the D for December release challenge. ***
*** Released as part of the What's in a Name release challenge, for the "Ron" embedded in the title. ***
*** Released as part of the D for December release challenge. ***
*** Released as part of the What's in a Name release challenge, for the "Ron" embedded in the title. ***
Thank you for sending! This book will be wild released on Feb. 8th by the Rubber City Book Posse at the Akron Reading Festival held at the main branch of the Akron Public Library.
Journal Entry 7 by 
Tribefan
at Akron Reading Festival in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, Ohio USA on Saturday, January 11, 2014
Tribefan at Akron Reading Festival in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, Ohio USA on Saturday, January 11, 2014
Released 10 yrs ago (2/8/2014 UTC) at Akron Reading Festival in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, Ohio USA
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