Neurosurgeons are people, too.

Anyone looking for a good book would do well to consider "Another Day in the Frontal Lobe" by Katrina Firlik.
Dr. Firlik is a Connecticut-based neurosurgeon with a spare, compelling writing style who gives her readers entre into one of the most challenging and probably least understood (at least amongst the lay public) fields of medicine around.
The book mostly covers the period of Firlik's seven year neurosurgery residency in Pennsylvania, and while there are some war stories, they are brief and always in the service of the deeper introspection and naked honesty she brings to her examination of her chosen profession.
It's this last point, in fact, that I find to be the most interesting facet of the book, that Firlik would admit to some indecision about whether becoming a neurosurgeon was even the right choice in the first place.
It's clear that she has made an uneasy peace with her decision. As compelling as she finds the work, it's obvious that Firlik has interests and passions that extend far beyond medicine, and it seems that she's not entirely happy to, say, defer her wanderlust and love of travel in exchange for frequent call nights and the tyrannical power of the pager.
Firlik is at her best when wrestling with such issues, and she manages to bring flesh and blood to the neurosurgeons, those ethereal creatures most of us are lucky enough never to need.
It's a great book and a relatively short read at 270 pages.
Check it out, you won't be disappointed.