BEING A NEUROSURGEON ...LET'S BE CLEAR ...


BEING A NEUROSURGEON ...LET'S BE CLEAR ... 


FOREWORD !: this post will be deliberately "simplistic" for informational purposes.

MOREOVER: FOR PRACTICAL REASONS THIS POST HAS BEEN TRANSLATED FROM ITALIAN BY GOOGLE TRANSLATE. SORRY FOR EVENTUAL MISTAKES







Being a neurosurgeon is a complex job to the point that its role is not completely clear to the layman and they confuse this with the neurologist or even with the psychiatrist! Let's understand each other.

Quite simply, the neurosurgeon is a SURGEON and therefore, as such, OPERA. This is not a detail because, once this has been clarified, we understand that most neurological pathologies (which therefore affect the nervous system) are NOT "TO BE OPERATED" and are NOT the responsibility of the neurosurgeon (but of the neurologist or psychiatrist).

NOTE: this gives rise to another very important concept. The main task of the neurosurgeon is above all (though not only) to tell a patient with a problem whether or not to operate !. For example: I have back pain, I do an MRI and the radiologist tells me I have a hernia, do I go to the neurosurgeon ONLY if I want to operate? NO. The fact that the radiologist (rightly) reports a hernia does not mean that you have to operate! (only less than 5% of lumbar disc herniations are to be operated on). NOTE: go to the neurosurgeon just to UNDERSTAND whether that hernia is to be operated on or not, using the experience and expertise that only a specialist can provide.



SO: FIRST, the neurosurgeon tells you if you have to operate or not (in technical jargon if there is an INDICATION OR LESS for the INTERVENTION).



In case you can't operate? is the neurosurgeon's job done? NO, it depends on the pathology. In non-surgical cases the neurosurgeon can refer to a different specialist more suitable for the NON-surgical management of that pathology (for example the neurologist) or he can manage that pathology in the first person but with a therapy that does NOT include the intervention (but only drugs or physiotherapy), which in the jargon is defined as CONSERVATIVE THERAPY.



But I don't want to bore you further and I refer to the next post what are the duties of the neurosurgeon in his daily work.

To the next post, or better .... to the next neurosurgical pill!.

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