Word: neurosurgeon
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...massages. As a neurosurgeon, I've never been completely convinced that the science behind them is all that sound. Yet there's no denying that they're popular - particularly among baby boomers and others who try to get active and stay fit with bodies that seem to grow achier all the time. But increasingly, research is showing that all those boomers may be onto something - that there are solid reasons for just about everyone to consider getting a good rubdown...
...tell, faith in expert opinion is how medical students, residents and even full-blown docs do much of their learning - mostly just trusting a few great doctors who teach. I know enough math to know that neither my colleagues nor I really know statistics. Not one orthopedist nor one neurosurgeon in my acquaintance really understands the math used in statistical papers. They learn by faith in somebody else's statistics, by trust in the reputation of an individual, or journal or university...
...Further, resistance tests showed that men's necks are 50% stronger than those of women. Another new biomechanical study shows that during adolescence, boys develop significantly stronger necks than girls do. "More-developed necks allow boys to better absorb a blow to the head," says Dr. Joseph Maroon, a neurosurgeon and consultant to the Sports Concussion Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center...
...African American portraying a doctor on TV was a news event, veteran actor Percy Rodrigues--whose 30 years of film, TV and booming voice-over work included narrating the famously eerie ad campaign for 1975's Jaws--resolutely fought against typecasting blacks. One result: his breakthrough 1968 role as neurosurgeon Harry Miles on TV's Peyton Place, which influenced a generation of artists and inspired this headline in the Los Angeles Times: A DOCTOR'S ROLE FOR NEGRO ACTOR...
...approval for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and is in clinical trials as a therapy for depression. Studies suggest it could also help control symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, dystonia--or paralytic muscle rigidity--epilepsy and even some addictions. "DBS is like a pacemaker for the brain," says Cleveland Clinic neurosurgeon Ali Rezai, who performed the operation on the brain-damaged man. "We pinpoint the part that needs stimulation and provide...