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A Review of How to Think Like a Neurologist
Peter V. Sguigna, MD
In what feels like the not too distant past, I recall reading with delight How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman. In this text, Dr. Groopman unveils a window into his mind as a provider, which was written for both patient and provider alike. As someone who was interested in healthcare from a young age, it gave me incredible insight in how to navigate healthcare relationships, both from the patient and provider perspective.
As I aged and became more and more exposed to neurology, what attracted me to the field was the method of reasoning. From symptoms, examination, then to localization, each patient was a challenge, and each localization was a puzzle.
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Meet the Author of: Pictorial Review of Lesion Localization for Patients With Stroke, Upper Limb and Lower Limb Pathology
Sarah Lyon, 4th Year Medical Student
Who is Sarah Lyon?
My name is Sarah Lyon and I am a fourth-year medical student applying general surgery this cycle. While I am not going into neurology, it was one of my favorite blocks during first year and one of my favorite clerkship rotations. At my school, we are lucky to have a dedicated neurology rotation that we complete as part of our Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship during our second year. The neurology preceptor I was paired with, Dr. Peter O’Carroll, was a fantastic teacher and fostered an environment in which I was encouraged to understand the “why” behind what was happening in the pathologies I was seeing in clinic.
As the pandemic ends, can we go back to fixing the worldwide epidemic of burnout in neurologists?
Cormac O'Donovan, MD, FRCPI
Burnout in neurologists has been most extensively studied in the USA1 and has been shown to be at higher rates than many other medical specialties.2 The recent National Academy of Medicine position paper suggests that systems issues play a bigger role in reduced physician well-being compared to the individual characteristics of physicians.3 The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the global extent of physician burnout;4 however, it has long been known that WHO has reported that disability and death from neurological causes exceeds that from cardiovascular disease, cancer and mental illness, which place an enormous stress on all health care providers dealing with the nervous system.
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Roy E. Strowd III, MD, MEd, MS, FAAN
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Department of Neurology,
Department of Internal Medicine,
Section on Hematology and Oncology
Winston Salem, NC