brain surgery
A New Zealand Neurosurgeon Mistakenly Operated on the Wrong Part of a Patient’s Skull
A health official is now demanding the doctor to apologise for the nightmarish medical error.
Saving the Brain of a Shooting Victim on New Year's Eve
After the ball dropped, a man walked into the hospital with a hole in his head. My main concern as a neurosurgeon was that he would be a "talk and die."
What It's Like Having Brain Surgery While You're Still Awake
Accounts from five people who've undergone awake craniotomies.
I Have a Computer Chip in My Brain That Reads My Thoughts
The electrode is part of a system that could help people with paralysis bypass their injuries and reanimate their limbs.
Uncontrollable Bleeding: A Brain Surgeon's Nightmare
When an artery in someone's head bursts, there's very little that can prepare you.
The First Time I Let Someone Die
Early one Tuesday morning years ago, I began my effort to save a woman who had been in a car accident. Four weeks later, I had failed.
Cracking the Cranial Vault: What It Feels Like to Perform Brain Surgery
It felt medieval when I put her in pins. It was my first time peeling down scalp and opening the skull of living human, a thrill unlike any other. Ten years and thousands of surgeries later, the experience is still branded into my own head.
This Globe-Trotting Brain Surgeon Says Doctors Are Doing Medical Missions Wrong
"You can't just go down there, drop some money, do a photo-op, and come back," Rahul Jandial says about doctors who travel to hospitals in poor countries.
This Guy's Headache Turned Out to be a Deadly Worm Lodged in His Brain
If the doctors had waited another 30 minutes to perform emergency surgery, he probably would've died.
Rosemary Kennedy and the Legacy of Mental Illness
In 1941, a lobotomy left Rosemary Kennedy permanently incapacitated. Two new books this month explore what has and hasn't changed about the way we treat mental illness more than 70 years later.
Milwaukee Pop Punks Direct Hit! Are Releasing an Album of Their B-Sides and Leftover Crap
Listen to one of those craps, "Brain Surgery."
A History of the Ice Pick Lobotomy
Lobotomy is a procedure that involves slicing tiny slivers through the frontal lobes of the brain, reached through holes bored in the top of the skull. It was an early way psychiatrists thought they could dramatically alleviate madness and suffering in pe