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by pineal 1y ago
Fifth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990
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by pineal 3y ago
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 carefully and will ultimately tremendously benefit our patie
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by pineal 3y ago
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 sacrifice -- neurosurgery as a specialty just takes all of these to
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by pineal 3y ago
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, for any physician not very well-versed with the limi
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by pineal 4y ago
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 stimulation and cognitive testing. We use local anesthetic like
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by pineal 4y ago
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 while right handed people typically have their language dom
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by pineal 4y ago
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. Suspend that same board ten stories in the air and try again
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by pineal 4y ago
Another example is robotic-assisted pedicle screw insertion in patients with challenging spinal deformities
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by pineal 5y ago
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 in patients who were above average at baseline. I'm a n
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by pineal 5y ago
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 any noticeable effects. Especially when it just means being p
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by pineal 5y ago
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 path. Of course, complications still occur but are fairly ra
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by pineal 5y ago
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 with significant comorbidities that heighten the risk of gene