Tough Calls in Neurology
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Medicine is an ever changing science and more so are neurological sciences with breathtaking developments occurring on a day to day basis. Technological advances have helped us understand and diagnose diseases better. With the advent of various MRI techniques, neurology has received a face change. Newer diagnostic tests have come and helped us diagnose hitherto unknown diseases. Latest drugs have helped us control and cure neurological disorders. Immune-mediated disorders may be mentioned here as an example where new auto-antibodies are being recognized and newer drugs are controlling the disease without the side effects of steroids. Robotic tools have arrived to strengthen the surgeon’s hands. Therapeutic nihilism is no longer warranted in neurology. However the challenges to the clinician are ever increasing. He cannot afford to have rigid ideas and risk missing treatable disorders. He should use all the diagnostic and treatment modalities in his armamentarium judiciously. To top it all, the possibility of getting entangled in legal battles looms large in the case of unhappy patients or relatives.
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