Another Day in the Frontal Lobe (26 page)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
K
ATRINA
F
IRLIK
was the first woman admitted to the neurosurgery residency program at the University of Pitts burgh 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. She lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with her husband, a neurosurgeon turned venture capitalist.
Copyright © 2006 by Katrina S. Firlik, M.D.
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All of Us: The Collected Poems
by Raymond Carver, copyright © 1996 by Tess Gallagher, Introduction copyright © 1996 by Tess Gallagher, Editor’s Preface, Commentary, and Notes copyright © 1996 by William J. Stull. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Firlik, Katrina.
Another day in the frontal lobe: a brain surgeon exposes life on the inside / Katrina Firlik.
p. cm.
1. Firlik, Katrina. 2. Neurosurgeons—United States—Biography. 3. Nervous system—Surgery—United States. 4. Brain—Surgery—United States. I. Title.
RD592.9.F57A3 2006 617.4'8092—dc22 2005055260
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