Katrina Firlik. (2006). Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside. Random House Publishing Group.

Katrina Firlik. 2006. Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life On the Inside. Random House Publishing Group.

Katrina Firlik, Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life On the Inside. Random House Publishing Group, 2006.

Katrina Firlik. Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life On the Inside. Random House Publishing Group, 2006.

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   • bioText: Katrina Firlik was the first woman admitted to the neurosurgery residency program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the largest–and one of the most prestigious–neurosurgery programs in the country. She is now a private practitioner in Greenwich, Connecticut, and a clinical assistant professor at Yale University School of Medicine. She lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with her husband, a neurosurgeon turned venture capitalist. Visit her online at www.katrinafirlik.com
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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.
Neurosurgeons are renowned for their big egos and aggressive self-confidence, and Dr. Firlik confirms that timidity is indeed rare in the field. “They’re the kids who never lost at musical chairs,” she writes. A brain surgeon is not only a highly trained scientist and clinician but also a mechanic who of necessity develops an intimate, hands-on familiarity with the gray matter inside our skulls. It’s the balance between cutting-edge medical technology and manual dexterity, between instinct and expertise, that Firlik finds so appealing–and so difficult to master.
Firlik recounts how her background as a surgeon’s daughter with a strong stomach and a keen interest in the brain led her to this rarefied specialty, and she describes her challenging, atypical trek from medical student to fully qualified surgeon. Among Firlik’s more memorable cases: a young roofer who walked into the hospital with a three-inch-long barbed nail driven into his forehead, the result of an accident with his partner’s nail gun, and a sweet little seven-year-old boy whose untreated earache had become a raging, potentially fatal infection of the brain lining.
From OR theatrics to thorny ethical questions, from the surprisingly primitive tools in a neurosurgeon’s kit to glimpses of future techniques like the “brain lift,” Firlik cracks open medicine’s most prestigious and secretive specialty. Candid, smart, clear-eyed, and unfailingly engaging, Another Day in the Frontal Lobe is a mesmerizing behind-the-scenes glimpse into a world of incredible competition and incalculable rewards.

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     March 27, 2006
     The brain is my business," says Connecticut neurosurgeon Firlik. "Many of the brains I encounter have been pushed around by tumors, blood clots, infections, or strokes that have swollen out of control. Some have been invaded by bullets, nails, or even maggots." In these pages, a carpenter with a nail in his left frontal lobe goes home within a day of surgery; a boy develops a raging bacterial meningitis because his New Age mother gave him herbs instead of antibiotics for a routine ear infection; and an infant with hydranencephaly looks cute despite the absence of brain matter in his skull. Along the way, Firlik muses that a healthy brain has the consistency of soft tofu, and she flies solo in the OR for the first time as she saves an 18-year-old victim of a car accident who didn't buckle up. A woman in a male-dominated specialty, Firlik doesn't get worked up over minor things that can be construed as sexist; she finds that handling a patient's anxiety can be more complicated than the surgery itself, and she expects to be sued someday for malpractice. This witty and lucid first book demythologizes a complex medical specialty for those of us who aren't brain surgeons.

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     Firlik (Yale Univ. Sch. of Medicine) bases this engrossing book on her seven years of neurosurgery residency training. While acknowledging that -the human brain is a refined, complex, and mysterious system, - she simplifies her presentations so that lay readers are dramatically drawn into brains that have been -pushed around by tumors, blood clots, infections, or strokes...and some that have been invaded by bullets, nails, or even maggots. - Firlik engagingly writes about her background and the influences that led her -one of only about 200 women -to pursue a career in the male-dominated, high-pressure specialty of brain surgery. She exhibits a becoming modesty when discussing how brain surgery is reliant on tools, manual dexterity, routines, and a gifted support staff. Readers are grounded in the surgical culture and the mechanics, risks, emotions, and sacrifices a brain surgeon faces and masters to become a professional. In the end, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to learn a lot of neuroscience from Firlik's vivid images and humanistic prose style. Highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 1/06.]" -James Swanton, Harlem Hosp. Lib., NY"

     Copyright 2006 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     April 15, 2006
     It doesn't take a brain surgeon to wonder what it's like to poke around beneath somebody's cranium. It does take a brain surgeon, however, to explain what makes a person " want "to drill into another person's skull. At that Firlik excels in her sometimes grisly, sometimes amusing (in a dark-humorous way), always informative, personal (father was a surgeon), and professional ("part scientist, part mechanic") story of becoming a neurosurgeon. In many ways she is what you might expect, but in others she is the rarest of the rare. There are a mere 4,500 neurosurgeons in the U.S., and a scant 5 percent of them are women. While Firlik has had some of the predictable and standard hassles and worries (what to wear to a job interview?), she has never had to storm out of a room because of male chauvinism. From a day-in-the-life sketch of a neurosurgery residency to an astonishing report on a performance-enhancing procedure to improve brain function, Firlik maintains a highly personal and engaging style.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)

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