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

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…

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