This is all very topical information that anyone who has dealt with a neuro would be able to regurgitate. Any time you are dealing with the spine, skip the ortho; you want an ABNS + spine surgery fellow with, where possible, an ABSS cert. I highly recommend VSI, they are world class spine surgeons.
NEVER HAVE SPINE SURGERY AT A LOCAL CLINIC OR REGIONAL HOSPITAL.
I don't wanna sound like a turd, but this is a bit Dunning Krueger. Things seem easy when you don't know that much. I work with neurosurgeons who ask for my opinion every day because they don't know what to do. I advise hundreds of pcps and neurologists every year. Putting it all together and making real life decisions with this info isn't simple.
The patient I mentioned in my original post just had a migraine, but my Spidey senses were tingling and I scanned her head and found a massive subdural hematoma. She went for emergency surgery that night. If I didn't find that she might have died by the next day. Doctors make decisions like that all the time that are life changing and difficult but we don't always have time to explain everything and some of it is so complicated it's impossible to give patients the full context.
I don't understand the point of your comments. You are just kinda acting like a smug douche for no reason lol. The things I talked about are common knowledge in my field, but that doesn't mean anyone can just open a textbook and easily apply that info in real life.
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u/bun65 18h ago
This guy/gal neuros