He Was Cherry Picking His Case History

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I'm not sure any other 20th century physician went to such great lengths to follow up on his patients and I don't think it's one or the other. How do we know that he liked his patients and wanted to see them? He was for a while kind of the only game in town is as by the way he's not a surgeon he was neurologist. And which is one thing that like people were very angry that he was effectively doing surgery because he he started working in partnership with the neurosurgeon and then the neurosurgeons. The surgeons are right that it's a bad operation but it comes off as like professional jealousy how dare you be doing surgery rather this

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