1. Home
  3. Surgery
  5. Life on a Knife's Edge: A Brain Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival

Life on a Knife's Edge: A Brain Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival

Rahul Jandial

Hardcover

$29.95
$29.95
Shipping calculated at checkout.

Items available in store will have a number before "in stock"

Availability: Out of stock
SKU: 9780241461822
Collections:
Ingram Content GroupLiving with Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Living with Graft-Versus-Host Disease by Buchanan, Brad
Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Explained: A Guide for Patients and Families by Fargen, Kyle M.
Ingram Content GroupIdiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Explained: A Guide for Patients and Families
Life on a Knife's Edge: A Brain Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival by Jandial, Rahul
$29.95
$29.95
A raw and unflinching account from leading neuroscientist and neurosurgeon of the valuable lessons we can learn from patients confronted with their own mortality.

As one of the world's leading brain surgeons, Dr Jandial is the last hope for many patients who have extreme forms of cancer - patients who can't be saved, but deserve more time.

Life on a Knife's Edge is his account of the resilience, courage and belief he has witnessed in his patients, and the lessons he has learned from them. Both an unflinching account of extreme surgeries and a profound, moving and introspective memoir, this book reveals the depths of a surgeon's psyche who is pushed to his limits, day in, day out.

From keeping a gun victim's heart pumping with his own hand, to saving a woman from paralysis and performing brain surgery while time is running out on a hemorrhaging patient, we see how making life and death decisions and facing unimaginable pressure has shaped one man's life.

In this breathtaking memoir, Dr Jandial shares what he's learned about human nature, from balancing the line between life and death everyday.

Publisher: Penguin Life
Published: 05/01/2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.72w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780241461822


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/28/2022

About the Author
Dr Rahul Jandial, MD, PhD, is a dual-trained neurosurgeon and neurobiologist. He is known for undertaking complex cancer operations and overseeing groundbreaking science at the Jandial Lab in Los Angeles.

Through his non-profit International Neurosurgical Children's Association (INCA) he travels around the world performing and teaching brain surgery in under-served hospitals in Central and South America, south-east Asia and eastern Europe.

Many first came to know him from his columns in Vice and his appearances on American news shows and international channels, including Discovery and National Geographic, among others. His first book was Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon.