Training doctors--too long in the cellar?

Neurosurgery is considered to be one of the most challenging of all careers, as captured by the cliché, “it’s not brain surgery”. While the neurosurgeons who spoke to MJA reers for this issue’s Career Overview ry did emphasise the technical demands their specialty, they also said the clinical d cognitive challenges of neurosurgery re part of its appeal (page C1). Medical ntor focuses on neurosurgeon Professor frey Rosenfeld, who has had an incredible year career encompassing clinical, to the specialty and should consider something else (page C5)! An equally interesting story is that of a Perth-based cardiologist featured in this issue’s Road Less Travelled section. Before arriving in Western Australia in the 1970s, Dr Krishna Somers twice had to flee oppressive political regimes – first from apartheid South Africa and then from Uganda under Idi Amin (page C8). Finally, for doctors wishing to make changes in their working arrangements, Money + Practice provides Brains on the mind