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, the...

"Near-death experiences are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the "soul" is really a product of brain chemistry. NDEs, he would have been the first to explain, might feel real, but they are fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress....

"Pide tres deseos. Esa es la extrana propuesta que escucha el joven Jim, un chico de doce anos procedente de una familia desestructurada, cuando entra en una tienda de magia del desierto de California. Jim aun no lo sabe, pero esta a punto de descubrir en que consiste la verdadera magia: en utilizar el poder de la mente y del corazon para hacer cosas que superan lo que creiamos posible."--provided by Amazon.com. The author relates how a chance encounter...

A Surgeon in the Village tells the inspiring story of doctors who, through a "train-forward" philosophy, changed the health care of an African nation. The story exposes a major and largely neglected global-health issue--the shortage of surgeons. The story of how U.S. trained brain surgeon Dilantha Ellegala practiced in Tanzania.

"Tumors, injuries, natural malformations -- there is almost no such thing as a non-emergency brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain -- in which every millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human -- every day presents the challenge, the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child for whom nothing is yet determined and all possibilities...