Gifted Hands: Neurosurgeon

Improved Essays
Gifted Hands is a book that has given me a clear step by step process in an interesting narrative format of the tedious process of becoming of Neurosurgeon. I have wanted to pursue this career in health for a while now, and it has shown me the ups and downs that goes along with it. Gifted Hands has shown me how dedicated I have to be if this is something I really want to do. After reading Gifted Hands I now know the work that goes along with being a neurosurgeon.
I believe that after reading this book I have a better understanding of what is required of me to become a Neurosurgeon and how selective the process is. Through Gifted Hands I have learned the importance of preparation that is required to become a neurosurgeon. The surgeries performed

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Many people live with the assumption that once you’ve completed a lesson or passed certain stage in life, you’ve mastered that part of or certain level of learning and therefore one doesn’t need any more lessons, teachings, or coaching. This would be false because no matter how much you think you know or mastered there is always room to learn. In the process, you will learn new things and rediscover better ways of doing things you already knew. This idea that you can never stop learning was witnessed by Atul Gawande, a surgeon who initially thought his performance in operating room has reached a level where he couldn’t get any better than he already is, that he is at the height of his performance, but then realized that even a well-trained surgeon like himself, who has been doing surgeries for years felt that he is still in the process of learning.…

    • 512 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Matthew B. Crawford’s “The Case For Working With Your Hands” he writes about how having a manual labor job is right for some people. His thesis being, a physical labor job can be more rewarding than a desk job, Crawford tells how in current times young men and women are taught to believe that to be a successful person you must attend college and then go on to pursue a career wearing a suit and tie while working at a desk. He goes on to describe his own personal experience of working different jobs in the labor force and then working different desk jobs after earning his multiple degrees. After working the various jobs which include working at a Porsche repair shop, owning his own company as an electrician, writing multiple abstracts on…

    • 1153 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Emelia Seybert PSY 442 19 November, 2015 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks I love Oliver Sacks and all of his interesting tales from his clinic. Previously I have read “Hallucinations” and “Awakenings” by him and I must say “Hallucinations” is one of my all time favorites. He has a way of taking subjects that one would find in a textbook and turning them into living breathing people with vivid and imaginative writing.…

    • 1688 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons written by Sam Kean is a collection of stories throughout history that depicts the discovery, symptoms, and shifts in the fundamental understanding of the brain and brain injuries. Within the pages of this book, Kean does a masterful job explaining the intricacies of the brain, providing captivating stories to stimulate the reader, all while encapsulating valuable information on the brain. The book is written from a scientific perspective, invoking brain traumas and disorders of the past to illustrate the brain’s labyrinthine complexity. Through his entertaining commentary and descriptive, often shocking stories, Kean is able to tackle five aspects of the human brain; the gross anatomy, cells senses and…

    • 1186 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Just as in the article Miracle Hands, I have experienced adversity , when i had the chance to go to community prep . I Kept On messing up in school and when i got the chance to go to a high school that i actually liked and thought i was gonna do good in . I experienced adversity . I thought that i messed up my whole high school years . But that all changed when i got to start my high school year at community prep .…

    • 182 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Jill Bolte Taylor’s bestseller, My Stroke of Insight, is a polished literary work that can be easily read by a large audience. You don’t need to have the knowledge of a brain scientist to follow along; in fact, the second and third chapter has a summarized introduction to simple science of our bodies and our brain including hemispheric asymmetries. Readers are able to flow through Taylor’s exploration of new sensations from heavy reliance on her right hemisphere. This amalgamation of all little details of Jill’s life pre-stroke all the way through her eight year in recovery In 1996 and at age 37, Taylor had a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere that had debilitating effects on her perception, movement, coordination, thought processes…

    • 781 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ethical Dilemmas and Challenges Developing an evaluation plan can help an agency manage the relationship it has with its stakeholders. However, an agency or community program may face numerous ethical dilemmas and challenges that may threaten the successfulness of the program. Such as stewardship, or demonstrating socially responsible management of resources to those who have supported the agency or community program (Waters, 2009). In our proposal, Extended Hands promote services that will benefit single parents that are seeking affordable and quality child care.…

    • 623 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Some say the Civil War furthered medical intelligence, others say it prevented people from further study of the medical field. Surgeries back then were brutal and sometimes, unnecessary. Amputations, for example, existed among the army because bullets were stuck in the bones of the soldiers. Medics could not save two-thirds of wounded soldiers because they knew nothing about bacteria and the importance of sanitation. They dressed wounds with the same bandages on different people because the medics thought it would save supplies of bandages (Wegner).…

    • 560 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies

    • 1301 Words
    • 6 Pages

    “Stefan Hirschauer describes the ways surgery transforms everyone involved-patient, surgeon, nurse-into tools” (Holmes, p. 115). With all of these different opinions and viewpoints coming at the reader within two pages, I believe that the author can make the reader feels lost because of all the information being given at once. Abelino, Crescencio, and Bernardo all do not receive surgery so I think that this information can be eliminated from the chapter. To improve his writing, the author can cut out unnecessary details that the readers do not need to know and may get confused…

    • 1301 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Managed Hand Summary

    • 1250 Words
    • 5 Pages

    In “The Managed Hand”, occurrences of manicuring services framed complicated emotional and embodied interactions between different women. Two women sit across each other in a nail salon, but are differentiated by class and race. The manicurist is engaged in Kang’s analysis based on “body labor” which includes physical labor of managing the bodily appearance of the customer through touching, manicuring, and emotional labor of exhibiting feelings that encourage delightful feelings in the customers about themselves as a whole (20). It demands workers to control how they feel about their job, that shows they care about their customer. Kang analyzes different structures of service provisions that are shaped by racial and class inequalities…

    • 1250 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    They call them “Tap-taps,” the brightly painted open back trucks that transport passengers through the dusty streets of Haiti. A traveler taps the side of the vehicle to board, pays, rides and then taps to jump off at a desired destination. For one particular man who sat with his face covered by a towel, that destination was the Diegue clinic in Port-au-Prince. All I knew from intake was that this patient was here for a foot issue. I noticed the adult sitting uncomfortably, a towel wrapping his foot, as his eyes scanned around the room.…

    • 627 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Alien Hand Syndrome Essay

    • 976 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Alien Hand Syndrome is a neurological disorder in which a person cannot control their hand motion, of which usually occurs in one hand. Usually, the afflicted hand attempts to reach for an object against the will of the person, often restraining the afflicted hand with their own controlled hand. This syndrome usually occurs after a surgery that separates the two hemispheres of the brain. It also has been observed to occur after brain surgery, stroke, infection, tumor, aneurysms, as well as other specific neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease. Alien Hand Syndrome is usually associated with the frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes.…

    • 976 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In the book, Ben was talented at being a neurosurgeon. Ben helped people like the Binder twins and Miranda ,Francisco by doing a brain surgery on them. Ben was also talented in moving the load crane. He was talented because he had a good hand and eye coordination. I chose talent because people need talent to do something in life.…

    • 313 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My Father 's Hands The man known as the father of Calvin Worthington can be described in many words. He is strong, kind intelligent and illiterate. A good man whose inability shaped his life. And Calvin Worthington can be described as a son that looks up to his father and felt that he was a good man whose life and death were tragically shaped by his inability to read and write.…

    • 767 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ramachandran knows how to get the facts by asking the right set of questions. He examines questions throughout the book and points out fallacies in the work of past philosophers. Positives: • Clear and fluent descriptions of neurological phenomena and their relationship with physiological mechanisms, philosophy of mind keeps the reader enthralled • Dr. Ramachandran comes across as an enthusiast in search of the secrets of the human mind and keeps the reader involved. • The illustrations, informative drawings and images of human brain add value by helping the reader understand better • Illustrations on optical phenomenon engages the reader Negatives • It has repeated mentions of same patients and this reappearance could have been done away with • Dr. Ramachandran focusses too much on his work and does not mention much about research by others in this field Ravneet Singh, NMIMS | Roll No…

    • 732 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays