“Neurosurgery is a compromise between the most beautiful and the most terrifying,” said Aaron Cohen-Gadol, a renowned neurosurgeon at Indiana University School of Medicine. This sentence has great meaning for me, because everyday life as a neurosurgeon also includes operations that did not lead to the desired result, the patients whom we were unable to help or who have to deal with severe impairments after the operation.
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