Backbone: The Life and Game-Changing Career of a Spinal Neurosurgeon Tapa blanda - 2017

Lisa Hagan Books. Used - Good. paperback This item shows wear from consistent use but remains in good readable condition. It may have marks on or in it, and may show other signs of previous use or shelf wear. May have minor creases or signs of wear on dust jacket. Packed with care, shipped promptly.

US: Lisa Hagan Books, 2017. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. On a beautiful spring morning in 1989, neurosurgeon and spine expert Volker Sonntag was just finishing rounds at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, A rizona. At that same moment sixteen miles away, a hard-charging boy named T J veered his bike into the path of a speeding pickup truck. The impact all but killed the boy, leaving him with a shattered leg, severe internal injur ies, a massive blood clot near the brain stem, and--but for the fragile spi nal cord--a complete separation of the skull from the spine. This is the riveting story of how Dr. Sonntag's pioneering innovation that day launched him into the forefront of the emerging field of spinal neurosu rgery. Surgeon to a Who's Who of royalty, celebrities and politicians, his clear-eyed accounts of failures and successes, hostile turf wars, media acc… Leer más

Lisa Hagan Books, 2017. Paperback. New. 260 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.60 inches.