Word: neurosurgeon
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...almost as if the medical profession were suffering an identity crisis. Some doctors have become so discouraged that they're leaving the profession entirely. A neurosurgeon in Texas folded his practice to become a police officer. A California radiologist quit to go canoeing in South Africa and bicycling in New Zealand. A San Francisco ob-gyn went to business school to learn how to manage other people's money...
...movies--on the comic-relief fringe of a teen-age gang--to the center of the action. You also have to admire the creepy arrogance of Schwartzman's performance. We can see that it covers loneliness, social ineptitude, even a certain amount of duplicity. His father is not the neurosurgeon he claims he is, but a barber. Yet the actor never once sues us for sympathy, and it comes as a nice surprise when we find it flowing toward him anyway...
...Neurosurgeon Stephen Papadopoulos, member of the Board in Control of Inter-collegiate Athletics, has been one of the first to address the need for change in the weight class alignments...
...neurosurgeons working in the U.S. today, 4,900 concentrate mostly on the spine and deal on average with only five or six brain tumors a year. Of the 100 who routinely work inside the skull, perhaps 50 specialize in blood-vessel repairs rather than tumors. Only the remaining 50 can be considered brain-tumor specialists, averaging 100 surgeries annually. Along with a handful of others, Black averages more like 250 such operations a year. His referrals come not only from the U.S. but from Europe, the Middle East, South America, Japan and Australia as well. A tumor that is inoperable...
That's how Melinda Schuler ended up on Black's operating table at the UCLA Medical Center. (This past summer Black became director of a new neurosurgery institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, also in Los Angeles.) The neurosurgeon in Reno, Nev., who performed the original biopsy would not touch the tumor, which was sitting right in the middle of her motor area. He could have taken it out but feared that Schuler would be left paralyzed. "Most of the tumors I see are like this," Black says in his soft Southern voice...