“Cold saline on the brain can actually stop a seizure in its tracks.”

This is a casually written memoir. It was a really fun and easy read, but in a way the tone almost trivializes the very subject it is on, neurosurgery.

Katrina Firlik, a neurosurgeon (one out of about two hundred women in the field), talks about her seven years as a resident. She thoughtfully chooses which cases to tell and which words to use and shares a glimpse into the OR, while she jovially interjects interesting facts and entertaining reflections.

I want to be a neurosurgeon.

“The brain, by far, is the most complex and interesting organ of the human body (take note, guys, if you thought otherwise)…”