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  • A neurologist and urologist whom he had seen on campus many times were deep in conversation.†   (source)
  • "The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert, in anything," writes the neurologist Daniel Levitin.†   (source)
  • I heard about them in histology, neurology, pathology; I used them in experiments on how neighboring cells communicate.†   (source)
  • As for my dad: even after he'd sobered up he'd retained the faint clumsiness of a punch-drunk boxer, butterfingered with a phone or a kitchen timer, wet brain people called it, the mental damage from hard-core drinking, neurological stuff that never went away.†   (source)
  • Of all the systems of the body—neurological, cognitive, special, sensory—the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed.†   (source)
  • Something is interpreting the clatter of neurological activity.†   (source)
  • In medical school I have been befriended by an upstart neurologist, who believes I am acting out a great lifelong falsehood.†   (source)
  • Let's schedule your mother to see the folks in Psychiatry and Neurology, then have her come back to see me again in a month.†   (source)
  • And what about all the neurological activity?†   (source)
  • It is a neurological phenomenon that is merely exploited in religious rituals.†   (source)
  • The technique purports to create imaginary characters who perfectly fit the targeted age group's level of cognitive and neurological development.†   (source)
  • Mama was diagnosed in Athens six months ago by a neurologist I had insisted she see after Thalia told me Mama was twitching and dropping things all the time.†   (source)
  • Initially, Nan focused on being patient and attentive, trying as best she could to suspend judgment but not seriously considering that his ravings were anything but remnants of neurological damage.†   (source)
  • It's not the work I miss-I was an estate agent, not a neurosurgeon, it's not exactly a job you dream about as a child but I did like being able to wander around the really expensive houses when the owners weren't there, running my fingers over the marble worktops, sneaking a peek into the walk-in wardrobes.†   (source)
  • I'm a good neurosurgeon.†   (source)
  • He specialized early on in neurology.†   (source)
  • I even thought about making an appointment with a neurologist.†   (source)
  • The man had become hydrocephalic, and the neurosurgeons had implanted a shunt to drain off the fluid.†   (source)
  • Moody had formed a close relationship with Dr. Mojallali, an Iranian neurosurgeon.†   (source)
  • I insist on a transfer-neurology bin, the alky tank, pediatrics, I just don't care!†   (source)
  • We are neurologically constructed so that we gain huge personal dividends from altruism.†   (source)
  • After all the neurologists, orthopedic surgeons, and other doctors, a chiropractor gave me back my quality of life.†   (source)
  • Later, he had to meet with the neurologist and the hospital administrator.†   (source)
  • When at the end of the year one of the residents, Edgar Nealthingham, asked the neurologist if it wasn't true that women's brains were smaller than men's, the doctor said, "Yes, Mr. Nealthingham, it is quite true and certainly a puzzle, since Miss Pritchard and Miss Kumar got first-class honors in their London examinations this year while you barely scraped through."†   (source)
  • Seven years earlier, a complex neurological casehappened to have been discovered at the hospital in Tereza's town.†   (source)
  • "Surgery is surgery is surgery," he liked to say, and on principle he would no more look up to a neurosurgeon than down on a podiatrist.†   (source)
  • This gave the speech therapists and neurologists clues as to the hopscotch way her brain had been impacted, and they tailored their therapies accordingly.†   (source)
  • Right now, a reporter from ABC 22 was interviewing a young mother whose son had been born with severe neurological damage.†   (source)
  • Eventually a neurologist told me that a strain of flu that winter had left many people with viral meningitis.†   (source)
  • Your sense of who you are has a neurological basis.†   (source)
  • Dr. William Kemp Clark, Parkland's chief neurosurgeon, assists Perry by monitoring the EKG for even a flicker of deviation.†   (source)
  • Suzanne lives in Seattle, married to a neurosurgeon.†   (source)
  • I've been in on all the conferences-I insisted upon that-and I've talked to the other shrinks and the neurosurgeons.†   (source)
  • With proper left arm (number-three) and stereo loupe spectacles I could make untramicrominiature repairs that would save unhooking something and sending it Earthside to factory—for number-three has micromanipulators as fine as those used by neurosurgeons.†   (source)
  • Which I control, from here, through neurological implants.†   (source)
  • Your whole life, all your actions, laid out like a chart of the nervous system in a neurology class, this impressed me as good.†   (source)
  • What tremendously important politicians, bacteriologists, and neurologists!†   (source)
  • I found a neurologist, a nerve doctor, who works on problems like yours.   (source)
    neurologist = physician that deals with the nervous system
  • "Terrific, Artie," the neurologist replied.†   (source)
  • Since the trip to the neurologist, Mama has been on a tear.†   (source)
  • "You've obviously had some information already about what we need to do," I said, "because you talked to the pediatric neurologist.†   (source)
  • Finally, on a hot, humid day in August 1994, Morrie and his wife, Charlotte, went to the neurologist's office, and he asked them to sit before he broke the news: Morrie had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system.†   (source)
  • But the neurologist was persuasive, intimidatingly handsome, and the recipient of a fabulously coveted research grant.†   (source)
  • The famous upstart neurologist wanted to be my lover, it turned out, and actually won me to his bed for a time.†   (source)
  • The neurologist-critic went so far as to write a letter to the chairman of neurosurgery, with copies to the chairman of surgery, the hospital president, and a few other people.†   (source)
  • Dr. Thomas Reilly at the Children's Epilepsy Center at Children's Hospital in Denver, after consulting with another pediatric neurologist, suggested a possible explanation: Rasmussen's encephalitis, an extremely rare inflammation of the brain tissue.†   (source)
  • The team that created the Iowa gambling experiments was headed by the neurologist Antonio Damasio, and Damasio's group has done some fascinating research on just what happens when too much of our thinking takes place outside the locked door.†   (source)
  • Nancy and Charlie and another friend of theirs, a neurologist at Columbia's medical school, helped him fill out the forms, but he had to prove he'd been to school before, and he didn't have any of his transcripts from Burundi.†   (source)
  • Similarly, there is an expression that Ekman has dubbed the Duchenne smile, in honor of the nineteenth-century French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne, who first attempted to document with a camera the workings of the muscles of the face.†   (source)
  • "I've already called the physician and the neurologist, and they're going to be here in a few minutes," he said.†   (source)
  • Ghosh had shown Matron photographs that Charcot, the famous French neurologist, had taken of his patients with hysteria at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris.†   (source)
  • But Gabby had a choice, and in the end, his decision wasn't going to be based on what either the neurologist or the administrator said to him.†   (source)
  • The neurologist would tell him that because there was nothing more the hospital could do for Gabby, she would have to be transferred to a nursing home.†   (source)
  • The Shiga toxins can cause seizures, neurological damage, and strokes.†   (source)
  • By phone Terry Francisco described everything to the pediatric chief of neurology.†   (source)
  • I truly believe that being a successful neurosurgeon doesn't mean I'm better than anybody else.†   (source)
  • Another neurosurgeon operated and took out the tumor.†   (source)
  • Several neurologists sincerely thought we would be crazy to attempt such an operation.†   (source)
  • "And if he doesn't die, he could be paralyzed or devastated neurologically."†   (source)
  • As long as I've known him, he has been neurologically impaired.†   (source)
  • I had bandied some thoughts around, and I consulted other neurosurgeons.†   (source)
  • A multitude of possibilities exist of bleeding and infection and other neurological complications.†   (source)
  • The Australian neurosurgeons didn't know it, but I had brain surgery down pat.†   (source)
  • Then questions arose about their neurological ability.†   (source)
  • Look at me, here I am the chief pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins at 3.†   (source)
  • The neurosurgeons impressed me the most.†   (source)
  • To do the oral examination, candidates sit before a board of neurosurgeons.†   (source)
  • We had gotten so busy at the hospital that we had to bring in another pediatric neurosurgeon.†   (source)
  • If I hadn't been successful, in time another neurosurgeon would have.†   (source)
  • 'If it's a neurological disorder, that's always frightening, Major.†   (source)
  • Every symptom she exhibited led to a prognosis of rapid, neurological deterioration.†   (source)
  • "The neurological implants integrate with the brain," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • Can't the neurosurgeons go in, tie off the tangled vessels, and evacuate the clot in his brain?†   (source)
  • It may be a neurological condition.†   (source)
  • When we landed in Peshawar, they assumed we'd be taken to Lady Reading Hospital, where there was a very good neurosurgeon called Dr. Mumtaz who had been recommended.†   (source)
  • Doctors later concluded that his neurological disorder might have been triggered by trauma in prison.†   (source)
  • So far, this has Juanita written all over it "Neurology ward," Major Clem says, delivering this string of nouns like an order.†   (source)
  • In one of those tests, he sat in a special seat as they zapped him with electrical current—an electric chair, of sortsand studied his neurological responses.†   (source)
  • He had joined the military as a doctor because of their superior facilities, following in the footsteps of his uncle, who was also an army neurosurgeon.†   (source)
  • Recent studies have found that many foodborne pathogens can precipitate long-term ailments, such as heart disease, inflammatory bowel disease, neurological problems, autoimmune disorders, and kidney damage.†   (source)
  • Contemporary neurological, psychological, and sociological evidence has established that children are impaired by immature judgment, an underdeveloped capacity for self-regulation and responsibility, vulnerability to negative influences and outside pressures, and a lack of control over their own impulses and their environment.†   (source)
  • Finally, on a hot, humid day in August 1994, Morrie and his wife, Charlotte, went to the neurologist's office, and he asked them to sit before he broke the news: Morrie had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system.†   (source)
  • Afterward, we found out that despite his youthful appearance he had been a neurosurgeon for thirteen years and was the most experienced and decorated neurosurgeon in the Pakistani army.†   (source)
  • After graduating in 1984, Susan applied for and received a job in the pediatric neurology department at Johns Hopkins where she has remained since.†   (source)
  • One major reason for our high success rate at Hopkins is that we have a unique situation where we work extremely well together in pediatric neurology and neurosurgery.†   (source)
  • Dr. John M. Freeman, the director of pediatric neurology at Hopkins, has said, "We're not even sure whether it's caused by a virus, although it leaves footprints like a virus."†   (source)
  • This beating took place during the time of a meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in Boston.†   (source)
  • The man woke up a few hours later and subsequently was perfectly normal neurologically, with no ongoing problems.†   (source)
  • On my way to the operating room I ran into another neurosurgeon—senior to me and a man I highly respect because of his work with trauma accidents.†   (source)
  • I decided to go all out to be the best clinical neurosurgeon I could be and contribute as much as I could to the well-being of my patients.†   (source)
  • Neurosurgery grand rounds is a weekly conference attended by all neurosurgeons and residents to discuss interesting cases.†   (source)
  • "Number two," I continued, "their neurological condition was impaired, and that would delay our ability to assess their visual capabilities.†   (source)
  • * * The procedure known as hemispherectomy was tried as long as 50 years ago by Dr. Walter Dandy, one of the first neurosurgeons at Johns Hopkins.†   (source)
  • I benefited from all their little tricks, and they aided me in developing my skills as a neurosurgeon.†   (source)
  • The night before surgery, the Baltimore neurosurgeon said to Craig's mother, "I don't think I can remove the tumor without crippling him."†   (source)
  • Dr. Patty Vining, one of the pediatric neurologists who had been with me during the operation, came into the room.†   (source)
  • One of the attending neurosurgeons, familiar with the boy's condition, stated, "These types of situations never result in anything good."†   (source)
  • Getting to the site of the twins' juncture wasn't particularly difficult for the young, though seasoned, neurosurgeons either.†   (source)
  • After two such surgeries, I told my neurosurgeon professors how I was doing it and then demonstrated for them.†   (source)
  • Others developed hydrocephalus or were left with severe neurological damage and either died or were rendered physically nonfunctional.†   (source)
  • Third, although I'd done my written examination for certification as a neurosurgeon, I hadn't yet taken my oral board exams.†   (source)
  • A skilled neurosurgeon, he knew what he was doing, but he had difficulty locating the foramen ovate (the hole at the base of the skull).†   (source)
  • A senior neurosurgeon in the United States from Perth, Western Australia, Bryant and I hit it off at once.†   (source)
  • The exhausted primary neurosurgeon who had devised the plan for the operation was a ghetto kid from the streets of Detroit.†   (source)
  • We assembled seven pediatric anesthesiologists, five neurosurgeons, two cardiac surgeons, five plastic surgeons, and, just as important, dozens of nurses and technicians—seventy of us in all.†   (source)
  • *My official title was Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, Direction, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital.†   (source)
  • He has tremors, and he still has problems with swallowing that resulted from the devastating neurological effects of the second surgery, in which he almost died.†   (source)
  • Since I had seen only X-rays of the children, I needed personally to assess their neurological ability, so I would be part of the team going to Germany to determine if the surgery was still feasible.†   (source)
  • Even though I believed I made the right choice, I felt terrible having to say No. "I'd like to have you go to one of the other neurosurgeons here at Hopkins who specializes in vascular problems," I said, "because the tumors are vascular."†   (source)
  • From the time we started discussing it, we all tried to keep in mind that we wouldn't proceed with surgery unless we believed we had a good chance of separating the boys without damaging the neurological function of either baby.†   (source)
  • Skilled neurosurgeons starred doing the operation again because they now had the sophisticated help of EEGs, and it seemed in a lot of patients that all the abnormal electrical activity was coming from one part of the brain.†   (source)
  • An attitude of excitement and adventure filled my thoughts because I knew I was gaining experience and information while sharpening my skills—all the things that would enable me to be a first-rate neurosurgeon.†   (source)
  • The torqula is the dreaded area for neurosurgeons because the blood rushes through that area under such pressure that a hole in the torqula the size of a pencil would cause a baby to bleed to death in less than a minute.†   (source)
  • So I started calling up experts in all kinds of fields: trial lawyers, neurosurgeons, CIA agents, embryologists, fire-walkers, police chiefs, hypnotists, forensic anthropologists, and even presidents.†   (source)
  • "We don't really get how music heals the brain," one of her neurologists told me one afternoon as he listened to her play to a group of patients in the common room, "but we know that it does.†   (source)
  • They use the same modern modalities of medicine as allopaths, anesthesiologists, surgeons, obstetricians, pediatricians and neurologists, to name a few.†   (source)
  • In other words, on the most basic neurological level, for someone with autism, a face is just another object.†   (source)
  • The brain is a fragile instrument and we may not know for a few weeks what specific regions have been affected, but young people are so very resilient and right now her neurologists are quite optimistic.†   (source)
  • Heart failure, pneumonia, bizarre neurological illness, strange fevers, rashes, unexplained symptoms—those were his métier.†   (source)
  • Two neurosurgeons have seen him.†   (source)
  • I had not mentioned my authorship of that rather technical work (after all, a neurologist's is not everybody's "shop"), and I was agreeably surprised that Rutherford had even heard of it.†   (source)
  • Our neurologists are at work upon it now.†   (source)
  • He's been telling me what a whale of a lot of neurology and all that mind-reading stuff he knows.†   (source)
  • After he took his degree, he received his orders to join a neurological unit forming in Bar-sur-Aube.†   (source)
  • Neurology, O.B., internal medicine, physical diagnosis; always a few pages more than he could drudge through before he fell asleep at his rickety study-table.†   (source)
  • To attend lectures on physical diagnosis, surgery, neurology, obstetrics, and gynecology in the morning, with hospital demonstrations in the afternoon; to supervise the making of media and the sterilization of glassware for Gottlieb; to instruct a new class in the use of the microscope and filter and autoclave; to read a page now and then of scientific German or French; to see Madeline constantly; to get through it all he drove himself to hysterical hurrying, and in the dizziest of it…†   (source)
  • None of the hectic activities of Senior year—neurology and pediatrics, practical work in obstetrics, taking of case-histories in the hospitals, attendance on operations, dressing wounds, learning not to look embarrassed when charity patients called one "Doctor"—was quite so important as the discussion of "What shall we do after graduation?"†   (source)
  • Dr. Strauss is a psychiatrist and a neurosurgeon.†   (source)
  • He reminded me that as a practicing psychiatrist and neurosurgeon he had very little time for languages.†   (source)
  • Then Strauss said that the project had as much to do with his techniques in psychosurgery and enzyme-injection patterns, as with Nemur's theories, and that someday thousands of neurosurgeons all over the world would be using his methods, but at this point Nemur reminded him that those new techniques would never have come about if not for his original theory.†   (source)
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