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Ebook Details
  • 05/2017
  • 978-1945962752 B06Y4NJ9N1
  • 242 pages
  • $9.99
Paperback Book Details
  • 05/2017
  • 9781945962752
  • 260 pages
  • $18.99
Backbone: The Life and Game-Changing Career of a Spinal Neurosurgeon

Adult; Memoir; (Market)

On a beautiful spring morning in 1989, neurosurgeon and spine expert Volker Sonntag was finishing his rounds. At that moment sixteen miles away, a boy veered his bike into the path of a speeding pickup truck. The impact all but killed the boy, leaving him with severe internal injuries, a massive blood clot near the brain stem, and—but for the fragile spinal cord—a complete separation of the skull from the spine. This is the riveting story of how Dr. Sonntag's pioneering innovation that day launched him into the forefront of the emerging field of spinal neurosurgery. Surgeon to a Who’s Who of royalty, celebrities and politicians, his accounts of failures and successes, hostile turf wars, media accusations of quackery, political challenges, and cutting-edge technical advances reveal to the reader just what it takes to be a game-changer in one of the world's most harrowing professions.
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"Volker Sonntag provides us in Backbone with an intimate and humble story of one of this century's greatest spine surgeons. At various times, Dr. Sonntag's personal journey is heartbreaking, courageous, and even funny but at every turn it is always inspiring."

Allan J. Hamilton, MD
Author of The Scalpel and the Soul
Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine

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"A great story highlighting the willingness to move ahead . . . not just miraculously going to Harvard or Oxford, but by adaptation and optimization. This is the story."

Michael M. Crow
President, Arizona State University

 

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"Backbone is an appropriate title for Sonntag’s book outlining his remarkable personal, professional, and career reflections. As this fascinating medical memoir so aptly illustrates, having “backbone” implies unwavering personal integrity, strength, and commitment in an individual. The patient management experiences and professional vignettes he offers in Backbone are worthy of thoughtful reflection."

Mark N. Hadley, MD
Professor of Neurological Surgery and Director of Residency Training, University of Alabama

Formats
Ebook Details
  • 05/2017
  • 978-1945962752 B06Y4NJ9N1
  • 242 pages
  • $9.99
Paperback Book Details
  • 05/2017
  • 9781945962752
  • 260 pages
  • $18.99
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