Michael Paul Mason is one of an elite group of experts who appear in the wake of tragic accidents and coordinate care that can last a lifetime. On the road with Mason, we encounter survivors of brain injuries as they struggle to map and make sense of the new worlds they inhabit. We meet a snowboarder whose life became permanently surreal after an ...
With poignant insight and humour, "When the Air Hits Your Brain" chronicles a man's evolution from naive and ambitious young houseman to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying detail, Frank Vertosick Jr describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumour in her brain, a young man struck down in ...
America's favorite sport has a serious problem. Many of the NFL's top players--including Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Merril Hoge, Ted Johnson, Al Toon, and Wayne Chrebet--have had their careers ended by head injuries. But few realize that most NFL players a
This memoir by Mary Swander, a poet and essayist, tells about the auto accident that left her disabled and in severe pain, and about her subsequent pilgrimage to the desert of New Mexico, in search of healing. The author embarks on a spiritual and emotional healing process, and reconnects with her Catholic faith, weaving family stories and an ...
Shortly after Basic training United States Army Private Lenin Patino was shot in the head point blank by a fellow soldier. Lenin's nightmare begins as he finds himself laying in a hospital's critical care unit in a body he could not move listening to everyone say he was going to die. Overcoming all odds, Lenin chronicles daily activities, ...
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