Barbara Lazio

An excerpt from Off the Top of My Head: Stories from the Operating Room That Will Make You Laugh (or Cry). “She has a size six head and a size four brain,” said my chief resident, Robert. “It saved her life.” I was a junior resident at Shock Trauma and had called Robert in to see an 80ish-year-old patient named Hilda who had a large traumatic brain hemorrhage after a car accident on the way home from church. Per my measurements of the hematoma and our trauma guidelines, she needed surgery.

Abstract Prior large-scale multicountry studies of traumatic brain injury (TBI) have either focused on surgically managed patients across development settings or characterized the full case-mix in predominantly high-income regions, leaving operative and nonoperative TBI across the human development spectrum incompletely defined. We present the Global Neurosurgical Study-1, integrating operative and nonoperative TBI across all Human Development Index (HDI) tiers.

Amid recent years of economic volatility and stagnating pay, financial planning has become increasingly relevant for physicians and other medical professionals looking toward retirement. Among a wide range of options to that end, most clinicians (69%) plan to rely on tax-advantaged accounts such as a 401(k) and other stock investments as their main source of retirement income, according to a Doximity poll.