Neurosurgeon recounts a ‘miracle of biology’

The following excerpt from Off the Top of My Head: Stories from the Operating Room That Will Make You Laugh (Or Cry) by Dr. Barbara Lazio has been run with permission
Was This the Life You Wanted Saved?“Show me two fingers,” I shouted, too close to his ear, as if trying to wake one of my kids for school. Beau’s surgery was a few days prior, and I hadn’t seen much response from him; he still leaned toward the coma side of the coma scale. Another hopeless case, I thought, h