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Fifth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990

An important first step. I am early in my practice and I fully expect medicine as I know it today to become unrecognizable within my lifetime. I am optimistic that it will be done …

Medicine as a career offers immense personal fulfillment, variety, human interaction, and prestige at the expense of dealing with difficult outcomes and ranges of personal sacrific…

I'm a physician and use chatGPT extensively for coding, writing, and general knowledge inquiry. With 60-70% correct rates on most training sets and 0.63 critical errors per report,…

The way it usually works is that we have anesthesia put the patient entirely to sleep to start and then we wake them for the sensitive part of the case when we need to perform stim…

Without further information regarding the exact location of the patient’s tumor, it is hard to comment in detail. However, one way handedness affects awake glioma resection is that…

The difficulty of a task transcends mere mechanics. A common analogy used in neurosurgery training: "Imagine a wooden plank on the driveway and walk its length -- no problem. Suspe…

Another example is robotic-assisted pedicle screw insertion in patients with challenging spinal deformities

All too common. Despite our best efforts, even the most detailed neuropsychological battery does a very poor job at detecting certain categories of cognitive changes -- especially …

The brain matter is indeed pierced. While “you only use 10% of your brain” is a myth, much of the brain is what we call non-eloquent, meaning it can be damaged or removed without a…

The neurosurgeon meticulously plans the exact trajectories prior to surgery and we use a combination of software and hardware (Stealth or Brainlab) to ensure we follow the planned …

Neurosurgery resident here. MR-guided focused ultrasound is a rapidly spreading non-invasive approach to deep brain lesioning that is perfect for patients with fear of surgery or w…