Neurosurgeon Peter Vajkoczy operates on people with brain diseases that nobody could have helped until a while ago. However, the interventions are often associated with great uncertainties. Here he describes how a wake operation on the brain works.
Peter Vajkoczy
“Neurosurgery is a compromise between the most beautiful and the most terrifying,” said Aaron Cohen-Gadol, a renowned neurosurgeon of the Indiana University School of Medicine. This sentence is very important to me, because everyday life as a neurosurgeon also includes operations that did not lead to the desired result, the patients whom we were unable to help or who have to deal with severe impairments after the operation.
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