T Forcht Dagi, MD, DMedSc, DHC, FRCSEd, FAANS, FACS, FCCM
T. Teo Forcht Dagi, MD, DMedSc, DHC, FRCSEd, FAANS, FACS, FCCM, serves as chair of the Section on the History and Culture of Neurosurgery of the American Association of Neurological Surgery, and vice-chair and professor of neurosurgery at the Mayo College of Medicine and Sciences. Trained at the Massachusetts General Hospital and in London, he has found that familiarity with the history helps propel innovation, advance patient care and further the scientific basis for neurosurgery.
The history of neurosurgery is an extraordinary part of the history of science. Some might argue that it is too narrow a perspective to command interest as real history, or as interesting history to a real historian. I thoroughly disagree. Such a perspective is analogous to saying there should be no interest in the history of the Oregon trail...
