Book Review: Another Day in the Frontal Lobe (Firlik)

Author: Katrina Firlik, M.D. © 2006 Publisher: Random House Genre: Medical memoir / autobiography Sub-genre: Nervous system-surgery, Neurosurgery, Medical history & records Reviewer: Sara Book received by: Purchased at B&N. Amazon book synopsis: “Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige…

Book Review: Brain on Fire (Cahalan)

Brain on Fire © 2012 Author: Susannah Cahalan Publisher: Simon & Schuster Genre: Memoir Subgenre: Medical Reviewer: Sara Synopsis: Twenty-four year-old Susannah Cahalan woke in a hospital bed with no memory of how she came to be there. Over the course of a few weeks, her life disintegrated. Brain on Fire tells…