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Author Wellons, Jay, author.

Title All that moves us : a pediatric neurosurgeon, his young patients, and their stories of grace and resilience / Jay Wellons.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2022]
©2022

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  617.48 WELLONS    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult New Materials  617.48 WELLONS    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  617.48 WEL    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  617.48 WEL    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  617.48 WELLONS    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  617.48 WELLONS    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  617.48 WELLONS    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  617.48 WELLONS    DUE 04-18-24
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  617.4809 WELLONS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  617.48 WE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxv, 254 pages ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents Prologue: The littlest among us -- The reminder -- Stitches -- The brain and all that moves us -- Ninety minutes from you by ground -- We have a protocol for that -- GSW to head -- Family charades -- Rubber bands -- Last place -- See one, do one, teach one -- Conversations -- November-5411-Yankee -- Anger -- Bucket lines -- Rupture -- On the morning my father died -- Birth -- A Mississippi Nick -- Luke's jump -- Shock waves -- Closure -- The other side -- The whole miracle -- Epilogue: Millimeters and trajectories.
Summary "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 still exist. In All That Moves Us, Dr. Jay Wellons pulls back the curtain to reveal the profoundly moving triumphs, harrowing mistakes, and haunting close calls that characterize the life of a pediatric neurosurgeon, bringing the high-stakes drama of the OR to life with astonishing candor and honest compassion. Reflecting on lessons learned over eighteen years and five thousand operations completed on some of the most vulnerable and precious among us, Wellons recounts with gripping detail the moments that have shaped him as a doctor, as a parent, and as the only hope for countless patients whose young lives are in his hands. Wellons shares his early days as a medical student and what it's like to treat the brave children he meets the threshold of life and death. From the little boy who arrived in Wellons's operating room with a gunshot wound to the head, to sewing the nerves of a newborn back together using suture as fine as human hair and prepping to take a brain tumor out of a teenage cheerleader, All That Moves Us is an unforgettable portrait of the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital, and what they can teach you about how to live life outside of it." -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Wellons, Jay.
Nervous system -- Surgery -- Anecdotes.
Central nervous system -- Diseases -- Surgery.
Children -- Surgery -- Anecdotes.
Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography.
Pediatrics -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Child.
Infant.
Adolescent.
Neurosurgical Procedures.
Neurosurgeons.
Pediatrics.
Tennessee.
Children -- Surgery. (OCoLC)fst00855161
Nervous system -- Surgery. (OCoLC)fst01036143
Neurosurgeons. (OCoLC)fst01036549
Pediatrics. (OCoLC)fst01056503
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Nervous system -- Anecdotes.
Neurosurgeons -- Biography.
Genre/Form Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
ISBN 0593243366 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780593243367 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
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