This is another review that came out and then was re-released again because the author appeared at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville. Jay Wellons is head of pediatric neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and All That Moves Us is a memoir of his time as a doctor thus far as well as his life in general. I was hesitant to read this book, since I was worried it would recount traumatic horror stories of young patients in gruesome and critical conditions; while there is some of that, the majority of the book’s content is mild and maintains a positive and upbeat tone.
As I write in the review, “His passion for healing doesn’t make him infallible. In “Rubber Bands,” he treats a little girl named Cheyenne who is suffering from a subdural empyema — an infection along the surface of the brain. The surgery goes well, and Cheyenne is on her way to recovery. It is only several months later that Wellons discovers he left two rubber bands, instruments used to secure scalp tissue that has been cut and folded back out of the way, inside Cheyenne’s brain. “
Keep reading the full review from Chapter 16’s website below!
Abby N. Lewis 
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