Another Day in the Frontal LobeAnother Day in the Frontal Lobe
A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

by Katrina Firlik

Now available in paperback!

Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer -- witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr. Firlik draws on this rare combination to create a neurosurgeon’s Kitchen Confidential -- a unique insider’s memoir of a fascinating profession.

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"As the tofu comparison suggests, Dr. Firlik likes vivid examples, and she has a gift for translating medical issues into everyday terms..."
New York Times

"This is a book of remarkable breadth, covering the state of the science and the art of the practice, the study of consciousness, personal stories... and the future of cognitive enhancement, transcranial magnetic stimulation and something called 'a brainlift.'"
—Los Angeles Times

"This witty and lucid first book demythologizes a complex medical specialty for those of us who aren't brain surgeons."
Publishers Weekly

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New: Katrina Firlik will be appearing at The Idea Festival in Louisville, Kentucky on September 25, 2008. For more appearances coming up, click here.

 

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Katrina S. Firlik
author of
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks
June 2007
paperback / 288 pages
ISBN-13: 9780812973402
ISBN-10: 0812973402

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