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Table of Contents Cover Page Praise Other Books by Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Introduction Acknowledge Half Title 1 The Rules of the Game 2 Slackers, Keeners, and Wild Cards 3 Thanks for Everything 4 A Night in the Street, a Night in the Chair 5 The Museum of Pain 6 Ailments Untreatable 7 Surgical Psychopaths 8 If It Was Easy, Everyone Would Do It 9 A Bit of Hard Cheese 10 Rebecca 11 Nightmares, Past and Future 12 The Wheel of Life 13 Belonging Postscript More praise for WHEN THE AIR HITS YOUR BRAIN “At a time when doctors have forgotten how to be teachers, and medical training has become disease-oriented and depersonalizing, comes a book that can help alter that view. When the Air Hits Your Brain lets you feel the pain, grief and joy of practicing medicine. I know from experience that some physicians believe their M.D. makes them Medical Dieties but I know for me it meant My Disease. Read and understand the emotions and feelings physicians live with that they are poorly prepared for by their disease-oriented training. Physicians know how to think but not how to feel. Dr. Frank Vertosick is not a ‘norm......