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All that moves us : a pediatric neurosurgeon, his young patients, and their stories of grace and resilience / Jay Wellons.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Random House, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: xxv, 254 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0593243366
  • 9780593243367
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
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 human -- every day presents the challenge, the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child for whom nothing is yet determined and all possibilities still exist. In All That Moves Us, Dr. Jay Wellons pulls back the curtain to reveal the profoundly moving triumphs, harrowing mistakes, and haunting close calls that characterize the life of a pediatric neurosurgeon, bringing the high-stakes drama of the OR to life with astonishing candor and honest compassion. Reflecting on lessons learned over eighteen years and five thousand operations completed on some of the most vulnerable and precious among us, Wellons recounts with gripping detail the moments that have shaped him as a doctor, as a parent, and as the only hope for countless patients whose young lives are in his hands. Wellons shares his early days as a medical student and what it's like to treat the brave children he meets the threshold of life and death. From the little boy who arrived in Wellons's operating room with a gunshot wound to the head, to sewing the nerves of a newborn back together using suture as fine as human hair and prepping to take a brain tumor out of a teenage cheerleader, All That Moves Us is an unforgettable portrait of the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital, and what they can teach you about how to live life outside of it." -- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement."-Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth

"A powerful and moving account of the intense joys and sorrows of being a pediatric neurosurgeon."-Henry Marsh, New York Times bestselling author of Do No Harm- Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR- The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly

Tumors, injuries, ruptured vascular malformations-there is almost no such thing as a non-urgent brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain-in which a single millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human-every day presents the challenge, and the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child for whom nothing is yet fully determined and all possibilities still exist.

In All That Moves Us, Dr. Jay Wellons pulls back the curtain to reveal the profoundly moving triumphs, haunting complications, and harrowing close calls that characterize the life of a pediatric neurosurgeon, bringing the high-stakes drama of the operating room to life with astonishing candor and honest compassion. Reflecting on lessons learned over twenty-five years and thousands of operations completed on some of the most vulnerable and precious among us, Wellons recounts in gripping detail the moments that have shaped him as a doctor, as a parent, and as the only hope for countless patients whose young lives are in his hands.

Wellons shares scenes of his early days as the son of a military pilot, the years of grueling surgical training, and true stories of what it's like to treat the brave children he meets on the threshold between life and death. From the little boy who arrived at the hospital near death from a gunshot wound to the head, to the eight-year-old whose shredded nerves were repaired using suture as fine as human hair, to the brave mother-to-be undergoing fetal spinal cord surgery, All That Moves Us is an unforgettable portrait of the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern children's hospital-and a meditation on the marvel of life as seen from under the white-hot lights of the operating room.

Includes index.

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.

"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 human -- every day presents the challenge, the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child for whom nothing is yet determined and all possibilities still exist. In All That Moves Us, Dr. Jay Wellons pulls back the curtain to reveal the profoundly moving triumphs, harrowing mistakes, and haunting close calls that characterize the life of a pediatric neurosurgeon, bringing the high-stakes drama of the OR to life with astonishing candor and honest compassion. Reflecting on lessons learned over eighteen years and five thousand operations completed on some of the most vulnerable and precious among us, Wellons recounts with gripping detail the moments that have shaped him as a doctor, as a parent, and as the only hope for countless patients whose young lives are in his hands. Wellons shares his early days as a medical student and what it's like to treat the brave children he meets the threshold of life and death. From the little boy who arrived in Wellons's operating room with a gunshot wound to the head, to sewing the nerves of a newborn back together using suture as fine as human hair and prepping to take a brain tumor out of a teenage cheerleader, All That Moves Us is an unforgettable portrait of the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital, and what they can teach you about how to live life outside of it." -- Provided by publisher.

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