Dr. Zervas
offering me a position in the neurosurgrical residency program
when I was a surgical intern at MGH.
Giving grand rounds as Chief Resident in the Ether Dome.
-- Dr. Debra A. Petrucci, Chief of Neurosurgery , White
Plains Hospital
Clipping my first aneurysm
as East Senior with Dr. Ogilvy-then watching Titanic later
that evening!
Gross total removal of CP-Angle meningioma with Dr. Ojemann
on my last day as West Senior. -- Dr. Zoher Giogawala
Private Practice Yale University
I think the memory of what was probably the first craniotomy
carried out under hypothermia will always remain with me
as the essence of MGH. Take a good idea, mobilize all the
resources you can imagine you might need to be successful,
gather all the intellectual prowess within reach to make
a success of the procedure and then go ahead and attempt
the impossible task…..-- Dr. Walter S. Cotter
, Retired
They were all special
moments, the privilege of rounding with the giants of neurosurgery
and neurology, men of the "Greatest Generation":
Sweet, Adams, Fisher, Ojemann, and Zervas,
and of course, operating with surgical masters. The most
memorable moment was being asked as a junior resident for
the names of a few patients that could
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Being
accepted as a surgical intern and walking through
the entry way of the White Building with my "short"
white coat on July 1st, 1968.
Dr.
Roberto M. Heros, University of Miami, Lois Pope
Center
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be evaluated by a new
machine MGH acquired, called the "CAT Scan". Seeing
the incredible impact on patient care, neurosurgery, and
neurosciences of brain imaging and what followed
- MRI, fMRI, MR Spect, IGS, SRS, etc. Being on the 50-yard-line
and witnessing medical history unfolding… that remains
magical. -- Dr. Stephen Brem, Director, H. Lee
Moffitt Cancer Center, Vice-Chair/Moffitt in the Department
of Neurosurgery
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