When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

by Frank T. Vertosick Jr.

“just remember the rules of any surgical residency: Never stand when you can be sitting, never sit when you can be lying down, never use the stairs when there are elevators, never be awake if you can be asleep, and always eat and shit at the first available opportunity.”

“People who cry at funerals shouldn’t become undertakers.”

I had indeed done my best; my best just wasn’t good enough. I accepted the nightmare of the past and awaited the nightmares of the future.