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Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent
Responding to Dyken, Neurosurgeon James T. Robertson of the University of Tennessee agreed that the excess surgery is "indefensible." Other surgeons are not so quick to condemn current practice. Since thorough studies have not been conducted, says Dr. Russel Patterson, president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, "nobody knows whether the operation is overdone...
...California couple who attributed the suicide of their 24-year-old son largely to inept counseling by his pastors. (That particular suit, filed in 1980, was dismissed for a second time last year; the case is still being appealed.) Suits against doctors, particularly specialists such as obstetricians and neurosurgeons, have been more successful and have led to some of the highest insurance premiums. A typical annual premium for an obstetrician in Los Angeles is about $45,000, and for a neurosurgeon in Long Island, N.Y., about...
Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent
...March, after friends organized a fund-raiser, the Terpstras traveled to Chaoyang hospital in Beijing. There, under local anesthetic, Willie had two holes drilled into the front of her head and about two million cells injected into her brain tissue. Performing the 50-min. operation was neurosurgeon Huang Hongyun, who believes the cells he uses - often wrongly described as stem cells but actually olfactory ensheathing glial cells (oegs) taken from the noses of aborted second-trimester fetuses - can help restore some of the functions stolen by MND and spinal-cord damage. That same day, surrounded by her ecstatic family, Willie...