Product Description: One week after graduating with honors from Harvard Medical School, Jody Heymann woke up in an emergency room with no memory of how she got there, and, within hours, was turned from physician into patient. The hospitalization and brain surgery that followed taught her more about the practice of medicine in America than all her years of schooling...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author relates the story of his sudden brain hemorrhage, which caused him to lose his speech, and discusses his personal transformation while on the road to recovery

A journalist recounts his experiences as a neurosurgery patient describing the scientific principles behind the procedures he underwent and profiling the patients and doctors he encountered

A journalist recounts his experiences as a neurosurgery patient, describing the scientific principles behind the procedures he underwent and profiling the patients and doctors he encountered