How to Remove a Brain : and other bizarre medical practices and procedures (Paperback)

from HavingFaith

How to Remove a Brain is a net-full of weird, wonderful and deeply yucky things that someone with a long career in medicine has heard about, noted down and presented in a single but not quite unified or connected collection. It is enough to make you change your mind about a career in medicine or,...

from nancyadair

3.5 David Haviland's How to Remove a Brain and Other Bizarre Medical Practices is an entertaining read of wide-ranging trivia of the sort that I recall enjoying in junior high. Amusing as it reads, there is real information here that will engage all age groups. For instance, Haviland addresses th...

from ellenwhyte

My first thought is that if you were suspicious of doctors, this will drive you screaming away from them! This is a wonderful book devoted to dragging up every weird and wacky idea in medical science from times ancient to present. Well written with a pen dipped in sarcasm, you'll find yourself la...

from MontzaleeW

How to Remove a Brain And Other Bizarre Medical Practices and Procedures by David Haviland is a fun and crazy book with things in there I would have never thought of. I requested this book from NetGalley and the review is voluntary. Let me first say, I have two degrees, I am a nurse (that helps w...

from ellenwhyte

My first thought is that if you were suspicious of doctors, this will drive you screaming away from them! This is a wonderful book devoted to dragging up every weird and wacky idea in medical science from times ancient to present. Well written with a pen dipped in sarcasm, you'll find yourself la...