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When the Brain Hits Your Eyes: Searching for a Revelation

By Admin | June 05, 2019

Wednesday morning, October 10, 2018. I was standing in an OR, 2,500 km away from my home and my medical school, trying to recall the five layers of the scalp to answer the question posed by Dr L., a seasoned neurosurgeon who was the leading physician in my first ever observation of a neurosurgical procedure. It was my starting day as a clinical attachment student in the neurosurgical oncology department of a National Health Service Hospital in the United Kingdom, and I was waiting to participate in a craniotomy for the removal of a malignant brain tumor.

 

For more information please read, When the Brain Hits Your Eyes: Searching for a Revelation, by In Training. 

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