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"My practice is a general neurosurgery practice, so that I take care of many complex spine
problems, degenerative spine problems, spinal instability and discraniations. I also treat
patients with brain tumors; perform craniotomies for brain tumors and for trigeminal neuralgia.
And, I take care of patients with peripheral nerve problems, such as peripheral nerve entrapment
disorders and carpal tunnel syndrome.
I take a very personal approach with a patient and many times for each problem there's a
surgical option but there may be non-surgical options as well. So I try to collaborate with
the patient and review all of the options for their particular problem. Try to get them
the best treatment that they can have.
I am accessible to referring doctors. I can be paged or reached at my office any time.
Easy to refer a patient to my practice. If it's a non-urgent type of referral, they can
always fax the patient demographics, any imaging studies so that we know where the imaging
studies have been performed and what has been already performed on the patient in terms
of a workup. If a referring physician has an urgent consult I can be paged and am always
happy to speak to a referring doctor. One of the nice things about technology is many
times I can actually visualize the patient's images on my computer and speak to the physician
at the same time so that they can come up with a good treatment plan for the patient.
I enjoy practicing at Community Hospital. The nursing staff in the operating room is
often the same team so that I have a dedicated confident team working with me in the operating
room so that we can achieve the best possible result. And Community's been very dedicated
to technology and investing in good technology for neurosurgical care."