An illustrated adaptation of the film traces the origin of the author's self-image, from the carefree days of her youth to the awkwardness of her adolescence to her romantic relationship with a plastic surgeon.

BIOGRAPHY: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE. With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Told through intimate portraits of Vertosick's patients and unsparing yet fascinatingly detailed descriptions of surgical...