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Our department has a special spirit to it in that
the field of neurosurgery was created here at Johns Hopkins.
The founders of the field, Harvey Cushing, Walter Dandy who were the
giants, who, in the field who originally really created the field of neurosurgery.
Did their work in this hospital and they pushed the barriers.
They said that neurosurgery was possible.
It was safe and possible to operate on the brain.
And they went to the laboratory to figure out how to do it and then they came back
into patients and they showed that what they learned
in the laboratory they could do on people successfully.
That spirit, that tradition lives on in our department.
It imbibes everything that we do here.
Instead of one or two individuals, we have
20 neurosurgeons in many different areas within neurosurgery.
Each one of which tries to not only be the best technically
in that field, and takes care of the tremendous number of patients with
the specific type of problem, be it a pediatric brain tumor, an
adult brain tumor, a spine problem, a vascular problem, or a functional problem.
But they also are investigating how can they change the field and make it
better for that patient and for the
future patients that will come to our institution.
They can be sure they're getting the state
of the art, best possible care in neurosurgery.
They can be assured that they are going to
get a team of physicians and scientists who are thinking
about their problem and individually designing for them what
is the best therapy across all disciplines and scientific disciplines.
And then they can be assured that the latest
research and the newest technology and the best possible
therapies will be made available to them and we
do that for every single patient that comes across.
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