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#66 No other neurosurgeon is as polarising as Dr Charlie Teo

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris

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Operation on the Brainstem

The chances of the parachute not opening is very low because most parachutes open. Now when they don't, the gravity is terrible both ways, gravity and gravity. So what I'm saying is when I operate on the brainstem, thankfully, most times things go well. But when things go bad, they go very bad. And so by the time you've operated on say 2030 patients, it's incumbent on you then to publish your series. You can save 28 out of 43. That's statistically significant. Well, when you consider they're all going to die, they've been told that it's an operable, they're all dying. And you can save28 out of 43

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