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My early medical work was in three broad categories: research, teaching and caring for patients. With time and increasing clinical responsibilities I left the laboratories where I had once hoped to discover ways to extend the life expectancy of patients suffering from that most malignant of brain tumors, the glioblastoma multiforme. This work was done in the laboratories of The Massachusetts General Hospital and The Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm. After I left the laboratory I concentrated on patient care and teaching responsibilities, sharing my work with students, interns, residents and colleagues in general medicine and neurosurgery. One year, eleven months and twenty-eight days had a lasting effect.A sampling of letters sent me after the 1970 LOOK publication The stories of my patients and their maladies I've included under the title of "My Patients and Our Shared Odyssey." I've tried to describe these medical and neurosurgical topics in words and terms readily accessible to the general reader. For a quarter century I studied, practiced and
taught medicine, more specifically neurosurgery.
Who I am, what I did and how I did it are perhaps
best described by those for whom I cared and by
those near and dear to them. For that reason I
have recorded snippets of my professional life
from letters sent by patients and their loved
ones. Dates and addresses have been redacted. I
have changed given names and replaced surnames
with single letters. This correspondence is
otherwise unedited and any idiosyncrasies of
spelling or grammar are unchanged.
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