The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding
the Brain
 I
always had an interest in the workings
of the human body and gravitated toward
pre-med in college. To get a better
sense of what medicine was really like,
my father got me a job in the operating
room of a hospital. It wasn’t too glamorous.
My main job was to clean up the OR
after surgery.
The
great part of the job, however, was
that the surgeons sometimes let me
watch the operations. There I was inches
away from an actual beating heart,
the lungs, stomach, and rest of the
anatomy. But there was nothing that
could compare to seeing the human brain.
It was awe-inspiring to see my father
take a scalpel or laser and cut away
a diseased part of the brain, or suck
out a tumor, knowing that if his hands
were not as precise as an atomic clock
the patient could suffer brain damage
or perhaps die on the operating table.
Once
a patient was brought into surgery
whose legs were paralyzed. At the end
of the operation, I watched my father
run a pin along the bottom of the patient’s
feet. They wiggled. The paralysis was
gone. I knew I could never do anything
in my life that would equal that moment,
and the gift of the power to heal that
my father possessed. And I certainly
never imagined that we could work together,
so it was a great pleasure to be able
to use my modest writing skills to
try to bring to life the years of experience
and the wealth of knowledge my father
has accumulated about the brain. I
hope you will find it as rewarding
to read as it was for me to write.
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