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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
It's been a minute since a book impressed an expansive feeling of gratitude in me. (I love books, and I am of course grateful for their general existence - but this is a more acute, unmissable kind of feeling towards a book that I read at the perfect time.)
Jay Wellons, a paediatric neurosurgeon, shares anecdotes of his patients, and the trajectory of his career. As in most memoirs of this kind, the stories about patients and surgeries are fascinating. When I struggle to study, I read books with medical themes, and All That Moves Us strikes a perfect balance between telling a story accessibly to laypersons, but cerebral enough to maintain the attention of a medical audience. I practically studied the whole neurosurgery chapter by reading this! (Joking, but also not joking.)
You can read the rest of my review at my blog, here.
Jay Wellons, a paediatric neurosurgeon, shares anecdotes of his patients, and the trajectory of his career. As in most memoirs of this kind, the stories about patients and surgeries are fascinating. When I struggle to study, I read books with medical themes, and All That Moves Us strikes a perfect balance between telling a story accessibly to laypersons, but cerebral enough to maintain the attention of a medical audience. I practically studied the whole neurosurgery chapter by reading this! (Joking, but also not joking.)
You can read the rest of my review at my blog, here.
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Barely 4 stars.
His soapbox at the end was dumb. Science can bow down to politics. We saw it with COVID. He wrote his book a tad bit too soon.
Filthy libs used to be antivax.
Most of his stories were from adults not kids. I thought he was a pediatrician.
His soapbox at the end was dumb. Science can bow down to politics. We saw it with COVID. He wrote his book a tad bit too soon.
Filthy libs used to be antivax.
Most of his stories were from adults not kids. I thought he was a pediatrician.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
This book was an absolutely incredible read! My fear was that it would be desperately sad or written like a medical journal. It was neither. It was down-to-earth book with stories of life and death, successful and sometimes not successful medical intervention. Jay Wellons is a gifted writer, a brilliant neurosurgeon but even more importantly a compassionate, sage, multifaceted human being. A father, a son, a husband, a teacher, finally a doctor. The kind of doctor we all need one who is knowledgeable, thorough, responsible and compassionate. I truly want to thank Dr. Wellons for this book. Science and advances in medicine are profound and magical. Life is fragile and fleeting and compassion and learning and creativity, in spite of it all is everything!
Page 155-156 "But witnessing grief over and over again did in time enable me to understand that grief is as much a part of this life as joy. Indeed, the ultimate grief of loss is heightened by the intense joy that love brings. Love for the one forever lost. Without one, the other is muted, less real. One must coexist with the other."
Page 155-156 "But witnessing grief over and over again did in time enable me to understand that grief is as much a part of this life as joy. Indeed, the ultimate grief of loss is heightened by the intense joy that love brings. Love for the one forever lost. Without one, the other is muted, less real. One must coexist with the other."
I just read this excellent book last week and have already recommended it at least five times. Jay Wellons, a pediatric neurosurgeon, shares his experiences with his young patients, including fascinating medical details as well as the bigger stories of the children and their families.
Read my full review, including a rating for content, at RatedReads.com:
https://ratedreads.com/all-that-moves-us-nonfiction-medical-book-doctor-surgeon-children-patients/
*I received an ARC in exchange for my honest review.
Read my full review, including a rating for content, at RatedReads.com:
https://ratedreads.com/all-that-moves-us-nonfiction-medical-book-doctor-surgeon-children-patients/
*I received an ARC in exchange for my honest review.
Incredible glimpse into a pediatric neurosurgeon's life and I'm I awe of his caring and hopeful messages. His attitude is so needed in all of medicine right now! Wish I could have rounded with him when I planned to go into neurosurgery!
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I absolutely loved the mix of introspection and medicine. The stories Wellon tells about both his patients and his own life are extremely interesting and also heartfelt. I can tell Wellons truly cares about his patients. I loved reading about the connections he had with his patients and their families.
Very meandering and randomly ended on a discourse about Covid. Some very interesting stories in between.