All that moves us : a pediatric neurosurgeon, his young patients, and their stories of grace and resilience
by Wellons, Jay (Author)
Summary
"Tumors, injuries, natural malformations -- there is almost no such thing as a non-emergency brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain -- in which every millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially hum... Full description
- Prologue: The littlest among us
- The reminder
- Stitches
- The brain and all that moves us
- Ninety minutes from you by ground
- We have a protocol for that
- GSW to head
- Family charades
- Rubber bands
- Last place
- See one, do one, teach one
- Conversations
- November-5411-Yankee
- Anger
- Bucket lines
- Rupture
- On the morning my father died
- Birth
- A Mississippi Nick
- Luke's jump
- Shock waves
- Closure
- The other side
- The whole miracle
- Epilogue: Millimeters and trajectories.