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Surviving Neurosurgery

Vignettes of Resilience

An expanded, candid, multi-perspective guide to the inner lives of neurosurgeons, healthcare partners, and patients, collected as short vignettes of resilience.

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About this book

Surviving Neurosurgery: Vignettes of Resilience builds on the original collection with new voices and reflections, remaining structured around seven parts, symbolic of the seven years of neurosurgical training, that traverse the career of a neurosurgeon: residency challenges, surgical nuances, research and funding, embracing humanity, patient experiences, and overcoming hurdles along the journey.

More than 100 contributors share their wisdom and experience, including patients, trainees, advanced practice providers, and attending neurosurgeons. The result is a candid, multi-perspective record of what it takes to do this work, and what it takes from you.

About the Author

  • Portrait of Nitin Agarwal, MD, MBA, FACS

    Nitin Agarwal, MD, MBA, FACS

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    Acting Chief and Site Residency Program Director of Neurological Surgery at the Veteran Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System and director of the Spine Computational Outcomes Learning Institute (SCOLI). He is board-certified in neurological surgery with fellowship training in complex and minimally invasive spine surgery, and earned his MBA from The Wharton School. His work spans neurotrauma outcomes, spine surgery outcomes, socioeconomic research, and patient education, with over 300 peer-reviewed articles and more than 350 presentations.