Neurosurgeon

Psychiatrists, Neurologists and the Neurosurgeon *

Permit me at once to convey Yale's greetings to McGill on the occasion of this highly significant ceremony. At the same time, since I have been asked to speak briefly about the surgery of the nervous system, I may, unsolicited, venture to bring to you the felicitations of the enlarging group of surgeons who restrict themselves to this specialty in our two adjoining countries. The frontiers whic...

Jacob Chandy: pioneering neurosurgeon of India.

Jacob Chandy, who passed away in 2007 at the age of 97, was born into a deeply religious Christian family in Kerala, South India. After obtaining his medical education at the Madras Medical College, Madras, he serendipitously came to work with Dr Paul Harrison, a renowned medical missionary, in the Gulf state of Bahrain. Harrison urged Chandy to pursue training in the fledgling specialty of neu...

Socioeconomics and politics affecting the Japanese neurosurgeon.

Ask almost any neurosurgeon in the developed world what his or her main concern is. It is the effect of socioeconomics and politics on his life, not science or the latest way to treat an aneurysm or lumbar disc. Why? Because there are too many neurosurgeons competing with each other, the amount they are being paid for their work is decreasing, and their incomes are falling after years of study ...

Bogus neurosurgeon beats system hands down.

The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA)'s top management has ordered a probe of all foreign-qualified specialist registrations going back at least a decade, and instituted a 'double verification' mechanism for all future such applications following a dramatic system failure.

Neurosurgeon takes health care helm in Quebec.