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"At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that,...
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Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists argue that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander, a highly trained neurosurgeon, was one of them. Then his own brain was attacked by a rare illness. Dr. Alexander's recovery is a medical miracle -- but not the real miracle. While his body lay in a coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world with an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence,...
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"Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached surgeons, this ... brutally honest account will make you think again"--Amazon.com.
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