When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery Free Audiobook Download by Frank T Vertosick Jr. Md

A narrator with a rich, warm voice transports the listener through each story, drawing listeners into the book. The stories are not just about neurosurgery and brain injury; other topics that Vertosick writes about include how the brain makes decisions, how aneurysms affect the brain, how different parts of the body are connected to tremors in certain parts of the brain, and more.

A new audiobook narrated by Kirby Heyborne has just been released to the public and it is called "When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery". Kirby Heyborne is a renowned narrator who has spent his career performing over 20,000 audiobooks. The audiobook begins with an introduction to neurosurgery and then proceeds on to tell about what it is like for doctors who are working in the field of surgery.

This audiobook is a collection of the author's cases, each dealing with a unique neurological problem and contains stories about his patients and their experiences. The tales are fascinating, heartwarming, and illustrative of what it means to be human.

The author of this book is Dr. Frank T. Vertosick Jr. and he has written many books about the brain and the nervous system including "When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery" (2008) which is a story of traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and other assorted injuries that happen to patients of neurosurgery. Dr. Vertosick's unique skill as an author is that he integrates humor into his work in order to make it more interesting for non-medical people to read about what happens during surgery.

Not every patient who comes to neurosurgery is a famous athlete or movie star. Some of them are children, the elderly and comatose patients. During the course of his career, Dr Vertosick has operated on all three types of cases. His stories fill in the gaps between the technical details of neurosurgery and keep you entertained while learning all about brain surgery.

Dr. Frank Vertosick Jr. was born in 1924 in poverty-stricken Brooklyn, New York. One of the street homeless, he was taken to Washington Square Hospital at a young age and diagnosed with meningitis; he survived but had a lifelong health struggle. He studied medicine at Columbia University and then served on active duty in World War II, earning the Bronze Star Medal for his service as a UDT (Underwater Demolition Team) combat medic during the war. Dr. Vertosick is best known for his research on hydrocephalus, traumatic brain injury, stroke and neurosurgery.