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Women and Academic Medecine: Is There Room at the Top?-with Dr. Frances Conley, a neurosurgeon with the Stanford University Medical School. In Longfellow Hall...
INTERVIEW Neurosurgeon Frances Conley speaks out against sexism...
...female to get taken into the club, which is necessary in order to get cases and to get trained, you have to become a member. I decided that I would go along because I wanted to get to where I wanted to be. I really wanted to be a neurosurgeon. I thought I could be a good neurosurgeon. Had I made an issue of some of the things that were happening during the time that I was a resident, I wouldn't have gotten to where...
Some brave swinophiles have taken full-size pigs as pets. In addition to their two Vietnamese potbellies, Raymond Sattler, a Wilmington, N.C., neurosurgeon, and his wife Debbie have a pair of champion Durocs, which currently weigh in at 700 lbs. apiece. It's just one pig-happy family, the doctor reports. "When we come home, it's impossible to watch the pigs and not just chuckle and feel better," says Sattler. "To be sitting in front of a fireplace with a bottle of wine, your wife and a pig is the ultimate in relaxation...
...there is a new and far less traumatic option for some disk patients. Known as percutaneous automated diskectomy, it is an outpatient procedure performed under local anesthesia through a tiny (2 mm long) incision in the back. Developed by Radiologist Gary Onik and Neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon of Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, the operation breezed through its clinical trials, and has been performed on some 15,000 patients around the country -- at approximately one-third the cost of conventional surgery...