Surviving Neurosurgery

2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-28375-7
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Buch, Englisch, 337 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

This book is a compendium of stories from medical and non-medical personnel about what it means to survive neurosurgery. This text is a follow-up and complete update to the previous edition,  , and builds on previously discussed themes and introduces new topics (e.g., childhood, parenthood/raising a family, being a business owner). Through nearly 50 personal stories, hear from those who have unique hobbies to help them cope with the stresses of neurosurgery, as well as from celebrities who became neurosurgery patients and social media stars who are representing neurosurgery in the digital age. 

Several bodies of work exist on the technical aspects of neurosurgery, but this book stands alone as a text that captures the humanity of what it means to survive from several different aspects. Neurosurgeons handle the most complex cases in the hospital; too often a time, the work that is required to get to such a stage, maintain success, and retire, is not well-recognized. Through colorful and engaging vignettes, this book informs, educates and teaches all comers about the personal aspects of neurosurgery.    

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Agarwal, Nitin

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Chirurgie Neurochirurgie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I Survived Neurosurgery.- Part I. The Patient.- Medal: An Interview with Kurt Angle.- Surviving without Surgery.- What We Do Not Measure Still Injures Us: A SWCC Operator's Journey.- To the Beyond and Back.- Spreading the Message.- Trust the Process.- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.- My Chronicles with Chiari.- Part II. The Trainee.- The Black Box: A Privilege and a Calling.- Living in Two Worlds: Dual Degree.- The Maserati: Choosing the Ideal Mentor.- The End Is Near: Navigating the Fellowship Journey.- Hail Mary: Surviving Call as Junior Resident.- The Circle of Life.- Don't Piss Off the Infrastructure.- Advice to Recent Residency Graduates.- Grit in Training.- Gap Year.- Part III. The Neurosurgeon.- The Oval Office.- A Hobby to Cope: The Violin Surgeon.- Neurosurgery on the Big Screen.- Relating the Unrelatable.- Who Needs to Survive Surgery, When You Don't Need It in the First Place?- Virtual Neurosurgery.- Partner in Neurological Surgery.- Optimizing the Economy of Effort.- Surviving a Malpractice Lawsuit.- Skynet.- Two Surgeons, One Family.- Work-Life Balance: Preserving Soul and Sanity.- To Serve.- Beyond Scalpels: The Art of Surgical Excellence.- Neurosurgery without Borders.- Surgical Exodus: Navigating Career Burnout.- Pregnant and Operating.- The Only Way to Survive Falling out of an Airplane Is to Go Limp.- Part IV. The Path.- Into the Zone of Action: Neurosurgical Sub-internship.- NeuroSurging Beyond: No Obstacle Too Big.- A Couple of Neurosurgeons.- Confessions of the GME.- The Boots on the Ground.- Neuro+9.- Spring Cleaning: Mop to Op.- Grind, Grit, Resilience: The Foreign Graduate Experience.- Sponsorship in Neurosurgery.- Backstage Pass: The Resident Perspective into Interviews.- Beyond the Mold: Crafting the Ideal Resident Profile.

Über Autor(innen)

Nitin Agarwal, MD, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA