The New Oxford English Dictionary defines excellence as ‘‘the possession chiefly of good qualities in an eminent or unusual degree surpassing merit or skill.’’ The definition of medicine is ‘‘the art of restoring and preserving health.’’ Consequently, excellence in medicine is the art of restoring and preserving health with surpassing merit or skill. For patients, the price of mediocrity is hig...

Department of Neurosurgery, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington DC, 1Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford School of Medicine, California, USA, 2Department of Neurosurgery, Catholic Kwandong University School of Medicine, Gangneung, South Korea, 3Department of Neurosurgery, University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angel...

1 MD, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Department, Poursina Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Guilan, Iran 2 MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Department, Poursina Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Guilan, Iran 3 Ph.D, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Guilan, Iran ...

1Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Neurosurgery, “Sapienza” University of Rome, 00181 Rome, Italy 2Department of Neurosurgery, University of L’Aquila, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy 3Department of Neurosurgery, Civil Hospital of Alessandria, 15121 Alessandria, Italy 4Department of Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Imperial College, Charing Cross Hospital, London SW72AZ, UK 5Department of Neurosurgery, K...

1Departments of Neurosurgery, Physiology, and Anesthesiology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA 2Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA 3Department of Neurosurgery, Kantonsspital Aarau, Tellstrasse, 5001 Aarau, Switzerland 4Department of Neurosurgery, Soochow University, Jiangsu, China 5Department of Neurosurgery, Second...