Summary of Frank T. Vertosick Jr., MD's When the Air Hits Your Brain

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Neurosurgery residency. Rule number one: You aren’t the same when the air hits your brain. The brain is like a 1966 Cadillac, with bricked-in personality. You can’t play with it.
#2 The rules of a surgical residency are: never stand when you can be sitting, never sit when you can be lying down, never use the stairs when there are elevators, and always eat and shit at the first available opportunity.

Sujets

• Medical
• Médecine
• Surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Chirurgie

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 14 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822531550
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Frank T. Vertosick Jr. and MD's When the Air Hits Your Brain
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Neurosurgery residency. Rule number one: You aren’t the same when the air hits your brain. The brain is like a 1966 Cadillac, with bricked-in personality. You can’t play with it.

#2

The rules of a surgical residency are: never stand when you can be sitting, never sit when you can be lying down, never use the stairs when there are elevators, and always eat and shit at the first available opportunity.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I took my undergraduate degree in theoretical physics, a great field if your name is Einstein. I had done well in physics, but not well enough to pass Fermi’s test. I decided to become a doctor. Medical students are not portrayed in TV and movies as drunken buffoons performing unspeakable acts with mummified body parts in anatomy labs, but as glorified college students.

#2

I was assigned to the neurosurgical service, which was a continuous care unit for patients who were unconscious. The patients looked like giant Q-tips with their heads wrapped in bulky white bandages.

#3

There are three residents and one intern on a service. The interns float through on a monthly basis. The interns do not get involved with the patients, but they are required to write progress notes on every patient’s chart every day.

#4

The morning tribunal was conducted by the chief resident, and it was clear that he looked down on his interns and subordinates. He never looked at me at all.

#5

I entered the operating room, which was smaller than I expected. The walls were covered with shiny green tile, and the floor was a hard, blackish lineoleum. The room had a cold and hollow feel.

#6

The craniotome is a drill that is used to punch through the skull. It has a pressure-activated clutch mechanism that stops when it penetrates the skull, but the drill never stopped, so the doctors had to widen the hole.

#7

The history and physical is the main tool used to diagnose a patient. It consists of the patient’s story told in their own words, and includes the chief complaint, present history, past history, current medications, allergies, and more.

#8

I was assigned to Harvey Rathman’s case, and I was completely unable to interpret the X-ray pictures myself. I found the printed radiology report, which stated that the disc had ruptured to the right side.

#9

The human body’s blueprints can be difficult to decipher at times. The nerves that supply the eye with light come from the upper chest, not the neck. This can be seen in the Horner’s sign, when the normal pupil is smaller than the paralyzed iris in bright light.

#10

The author was offered a position in a premier program by an internationally renowned surgeon.