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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
by Katrina Firlik
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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Random House; 1 (May 02 2006)
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Chapter 1: Scientist and Mechanic
The brain is soft. Some of my colleagues compare it to toothpaste, but that's not quite right. It doesn't spread like toothpaste. It doesn't adhere to your fingers the way toothpaste does.

Chapter 1: Scientist and Mechanic
The brain is soft. Some of my colleagues compare it to toothpaste, but that's not quite right. It doesn't spread like toothpaste. It doesn't adhere to your fingers the way toothpaste does.

Chapter 1: Scientist and Mechanic, Part 2
When I recounted this story to my family and friends after dinner one night, they all nagged me with the same question: 'How could he be normal? This went into his brain.'


About the Author

Katrina S. Firlik, M.D.Katrina S. Firlik, M.D.

Katrina Firlik was the first woman admitted to the neurosurgery residency program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the largest — and one of the most prestigious — neurosurgery programs in the country. She is now a private practitioner in Greenwich, Connecticut, and a clinical assistant professor at Yale University School of Medicine.

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