Terra Miller
Doctors often encounter patients with significant pain. As the social gatekeepers for the medical and surgical treatment of pain, physicians also have the power...
Andrew E. Sloan, MD, FAANS (AS): Why did you decide to become a neurosurgeon?
Peter W. Carmel, MD (PC): I took a circuitous route....
Neurosurgery residents deal with both acute surgical pain and a variety of chronic pain syndromes ranging from lower back pain and failed back surgery...
July 1 comes ‘round once again. I examine my practice and revisit my patients’ lives. I am transported back to an earlier July by...
Surgical intervention for the treatment of severe, chronic pain has been used successfully for centuries. With patients living longer and surviving cancer, chronic pain...
Celebrity drug overdose stories have sent shock waves through Hollywood for years…Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Prince…many of the greats gone before their time, forever...
For decades, pain surgery has been neurosurgery’s stepchild. Few took interest in it, lesioning of the nervous system suffered the stigma inflicted by psychosurgery,...
"There is no sadder picture than the professor who has outgrown his usefulness, and, the only one unconscious of the fact, insists with a...
In 1993, Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) replaced radiographic film and positioned medicine at the forefront of digital technology. Neurosurgeons quickly evolved...
A Rich Heritage
The specialty of neurosurgery has a long history of maintaining high standards of patient care and safety. Dr. Harvey Cushing was...
