Main description:

Surviving Neurosurgery: Vignettes of Resilience is a practical guide to the inner workings of the lives of neurosurgeons, healthcare partners, and patients. To this end, this text serves as a first-hand documentary of the unique challenges faced as one progresses through their career. It is a snapshot in time capturing the experiences of both patients and providers. The text is divided into seven parts that run the gamut of a neurosurgeon's career symbolic of the seven years of neurosurgical training. These narratives include, but are not limited to, residency challenges, surgical nuances, research and funding, embracing humanity, patient experiences, and overcoming hurdles along the journey. Chapters share the wisdom and experiences of over 100 authors consisting of patients, trainees, advanced practice providers, and attending neurosurgeons.

Contents:

The Black Box - a Privilege and a Calling.- The Two A's of Neurosurgery: A Subintern's Experience.- Into the Zone of Action: Neurosurgical Sub-internship.- The Right Stuff : What Program Directors Look for in Residency Applicants.- SO WE BEAT ON, BOATS AGAINST THE CURRENT: OVERCOMING CHALLENGES TO MATCH.- Behind the Curtain: Residency Interviews.- Living in Two Worlds: Dual Degree.- Matching plus one.- Lessons for New Interns.- Chief Year Story: Day 2,946.- Hail Mary: Surviving Call as a Junior Resident.- Preparing for the written boards.- A Knot in the Heart: Junior Resident Experience.- Stoking the Fire: Consult Story.- The Maserati: Choosing the Ideal Mentor.- To Washington and Back: My Thoughts on Healthcare Activism.- A Bridge, but No River: The Fellow-ish Experience.- Becoming the Theologian and the Priest : Advice for Residents.- A Stroke of Change: Changes in my Practice.- My Greatest Mentor.- Advancing Academically in Neurosurgery: Harnessing the Sweet Spot While Minimizing the Sweat Spot.- Life Beyond Neurosurgery.- A New Job: A Steep Learning Curve.- Negotiating Your Way to a Fulfilling Neurosurgery Career: Clinical Contract.- Negotiating a Research Contract.- Surviving Medicaid, Medicare, Private Payors, Billing and Collections in 2020.- How to Choose a Team .- Advice to recent residency graduates.- Neurosurgical Leadership: Altruism and Aequanimitas.- Directing a Neurosurgery Residency Training Program.- Lessons from Leadership from a Society President.- AANS/CNS Washington Committee: Ensuring Neurosurgery Survival.- Team Management - Lessons from Establishing a Neurointerventional Service.- PArtner in Neurological Surgery.- Cost-Cutting Without Quality-Cutting.- Neurosurgery Across the Globe.- Lessons Learned: Life in Neurosurgery.- Global Neurosurgery: how best to be involved.- Preparing for the Oral Board Exam.- Challenges of Coding and Reimbursement.- Sponsor for Trainees.- The Neuroendovascular Surgery Odyssey.- My Worst Complication.- Judgment, Teams and Hands: Beyond Technical Skills in the Operating Room.- Supporting Future Generations of Neurosurgeons: Passing the torch.- The "tail" of the intraneural ganglion cyst: My most fascinating case.- Morbidity and Mortality.- Preparing for the OR: From the Lab to the OR.- Intraoperative Teamwork: Two-Surgeon Model.- Gaining Competence in Neurological Surgery: Is it enough? .- A Critical Portion of the Case Occurs in the Clinic.- Why I chose to be a neurosurgeon.- A Subspecialty at a Glance: Endovascular Neurosurgery.- No Longer Gentleman Hands: Choosing Spine Surgery.- The Modern-Day Skull Base Surgeon.- Choosing Neurosurgical-Oncology.- From Cajal to Talairach: A journey to Epilepsy Surgery.- Choosing Pediatric neurosurgery.- A Focus on Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Neurosurgery.- Bench and Bedside: The Path to Becoming a Physician-Scientist.- Private practice.- Choosing a Subspecialty Which is Both Practical and Useful.- Neurotrauma: Endlessly Rewarding.- Rewiring the Peripheral Nervous System.- Research Year Story.- The MD/PhD and the Neurosurgeon/Neuroscientist.- How to Give a Great Presentation.- The Job of Editor-in-Chief of a Neurosurgery Journal.- Neurosurgery and the Pursuit of Fundamental Neuroscience.- "How to Get Research Funding (AKA, How to Successfully Bang Your Head Against the Wall)".- A Podcast for Neurosurgeons: Conception, Creation, Continuation.- AANS Neurosurgeon: Creativity outside of the operating room.- Getting started in research: Testimonial from a "Late Bloomer".-- The "Keys" to starting your research laboratory.- Technophilia and Neurosurgery.- How to Conduct Meaningful Research: How Not To Reinvent Just Another Wheel.- Work Life Balance: Preserving soul and sanity.- Having Children During Residency.- The @Graffeo 10 Commandments for #NSGY Twitter.- Public Service in Neurosurgery.- Diversity in Neurosurgery.- Military Neurosurgery.- Thriving in a Two Surgeon Household.- Surviving a Malpractice Lawsuit.- Engagement and Leadership in Organized Neurosurgery.- BEING A WOMAN IN A MALE-DOMINATED FIELD.- In the Eyes of Chiari .- Mindfulness, and Coping with the Inevitable Tragedies of Neurosurgery.- How to Build a Successful Academic Innovation Program and Why Innovation Should be a Core Neurosurgical Competency.- Art of Neurosurgery: The Commissure.- Mission Trips: How Outreach Changed My Life.- The Family is an Extension of the Patient.- A Personal Journey.- Switching Programs.- Applying to Neurosurgery: DO's and DO Nots .- Changing Neurosurgery Programs.- The only way to survive falling out of an airplane is to go limp.- Flipping Burgers Due to Career Burnout.- So You Didn't Match.- Overcoming Frustration: Grind My Gears, Butter My Bread.- Chasing the American Dream.