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Only the neurosurgeon dares to improve upon five billion years of evolution in a few hours.
The human brain. A trillion nerve cells storing electrical patterns more numerous than the water molecules of the world’s oceans. The soul’s tapestry lies woven in the brain’s nerve threads. Delicate, inviolate, the brain floats serenely in a bone vault like the crown jewel of biology. What motivated the vast leap in intellectual horsepower between chimp and man? Between tree dweller and moon walker? Is t
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Still, when you work in a hospital, the papers you file aren't just papers: they are fragments of narratives filled with risks & triumphs.
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― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
For anyone interested in the sciences of the brain, i.e. neuroscience, neurology, neurosurgery, …more
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