All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience...

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Jay Wellons

All That Moves Us

A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

Jay Wellons

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Random House Inc
12 July 2022

Paediatric medicine

"In riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, a pediatric neurosurgeon recounts pivotal moments from his life and career-and what his brave young patients have taught him about the meaning of life and our struggle to live it.

""The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement.""-Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth

""A powerful and moving account of the intense joys and sorrows of being a pediatric neurosurgeon.""-Henry Marsh, New York Times bestselling author of Do No Harm- Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR- The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly

Tumors, injuries, ruptured vascular malformations-there is almost no such thing as a non-urgent brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain-in which a single millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human-every day presents the challenge, and the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child for whom nothing is yet fully determined and all possibilities still exist.

In All That Moves Us, Dr. Jay Wellons pulls back the curtain to reveal the profoundly moving triumphs, haunting complications, and harrowing close calls that characterize the life of a pediatric neurosurgeon, bringing the high-stakes drama of the operating room to life with astonishing candor and honest compassion. Reflecting on lessons learned over twenty-five years and thousands of operations completed on some of the most vulnerable and precious among us, Wellons recounts in gripping detail the moments that have shaped him as a doctor, as a parent, and as the only hope for countless patients whose young lives are in his hands.

Wellons shares scenes of his early days as the son of a military pilot, the years of grueling surgical training, and true stories of what it's like to treat the brave children he meets on the threshold between life and death. From the little boy who arrived at the hospital near death from a gunshot wound to the head, to the eight-year-old whose shredded nerves were repaired using suture as fine as human hair, to the brave mother-to-be undergoing fetal spinal cord surgery, All That Moves Us is an unforgettable portrait of the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern children's hospital-and a meditation on the marvel of life as seen from under the white-hot lights of the operating room."

By: Jay Wellons
Imprint: Random House Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 527g
ISBN: 9780593243367
ISBN 10: 0593243366
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 12 July 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jay Wellons, MD, MSPH, is a professor in the departments of neurological surgery, pediatrics, plastic surgery, radiology, and radiological sciences at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He holds the Cal Turner Chair, is the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, and is the medical director for the Surgical Outcomes Center for Kids (SOCKs), which he co-founded. He has written op-eds for The New York Times. Jay Wellons lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his family.

Reviews for All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience

All That Moves Us tells the story of lives that have been shattered and reassembled. The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement. This is a wondrous and deeply moving book. -Ann Patchett