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The first half of the book was absolutely enthralling, packed with tense drama and emotional depictions of front-line medical care during the Vietnam War. The second half, after the main character returns home from war, drags a bit in places and fixates on some toxic relationships. Despite those rough patches, I picked it as a favorite this year for its unique take on the nurses' story, an often-overlooked part of history.
From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels—at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.
“Women can be heroes, too.”
When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Let’s begin from a historical perspective, Harvey Cushing’s incredible diligence really reflects the genius of an incredibly talented surgeon and gifted artist who would sketch each brain tumor and details of the surgical procedure, patient after patient. Moving on to training to be a neurosurgeon. Plan on a 6 to 7 year residency commitment. What’s it like to operate in an incredibly confined space? Inside the skull. Dealing with rupture of a main artery that feeds the brain, viz. middle meningeal artery that was severed from trauma makes one sit at the edge of their seat when reading the account; this topic is addressed in the “Penetrating Head Trauma” chapter.
If you are a first year resident Dr Schwatz outlines what your life will be like, what surgical procedures will you be involved with. We then are toured through “Sports Neurosurgery” and…
“If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a must read and Dr. Theodore Schwartz is the perfect guide, a master brain surgeon and superbly talented writer. I have not read a better biography of our shared profession, and in Schwartz's talented hands, the most enigmatic 3 1/2 pounds of tissue in the known universe comes to light in remarkable and revelatory ways.” —Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, and New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at…
