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All that moves us a pediatric neurosurgeon, his young patients, and their stories of grace and resilience

"Tumors, injuries, natural malformations -- there is almost no such thing as a non-emergency brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain -- in which every millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentiall...

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Main Author: Wellons, Jay (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House, [2022]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Wellons, Jay.
Nervous system > Surgery > Anecdotes.
Central nervous system > Diseases > Surgery.
Children > Surgery > Anecdotes.
Neurosurgeons > United States > Biography.
Pediatrics > United States > Anecdotes.
Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The littlest among us
  • The reminder
  • Stitches
  • The brain and all that moves us
  • Ninety minutes from you by ground
  • We have a protocol for that
  • GSW to head
  • Family charades
  • Rubber bands
  • Last place
  • See one, do one, teach one
  • Conversations
  • November-5411-Yankee
  • Anger
  • Bucket lines
  • Rupture
  • On the morning my father died
  • Birth
  • A Mississippi Nick
  • Luke's jump
  • Shock waves
  • Closure
  • The other side
  • The whole miracle
  • Epilogue: Millimeters and trajectories.

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