As one of the world's leading brain surgeons Dr Jandial is the last hope for many patients who
have extreme forms of cancer - patients who can't be saved but deserve more time. Life on a
Knife's Edge is his account of the resilience courage and belief he has witnessed in his
patients and the lessons he has learned from them. Both an unflinching account of extreme
surgeries and a profound moving and introspective memoir this book reveals the depths of a
surgeon's psyche who is pushed to his limits day in day out. From keeping a gun victim's
heart pumping with his own hand to saving a woman from paralysis and performing brain surgery
while time is running out on a haemorrhaging patient we see how making life and death
decisions and facing unimaginable pressure has shaped one man's life. Now he shares the many
truths about human nature that he has learned along the way: from how we deal with trauma loss
and threat to our innate belief and sense of self. From a life spent balancing on the line
between life and death above all else he reveals what it really means to survive.
