Nikova Aleksandrina Sasheva
Metaxa Cancer Hospital, Greece
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Neurol Neurophysiol
Introduction: Cervical spine surgery is one of the most common regions requiring health care. The management
could be surgical or conservative, but the most accurate part of the job remains the trust between the surgeon and
his patient.
Methods: After the release of the article ??anterior cervical corpectomy and the operating team: a controversy?? the
issues regarding the cervical spine start revealing themselves. Despite that fact, the patients were never asked how
they feel about the spine surgeon ?? neurosurgeons, orthopedics or just spine surgeons. And because of that, we asked
them.
Results: The outcome of this ??interview? reveal an interesting fact, regarding this trust, suggesting that the choice
of the surgeon is never made by the participants. The brain function responsible for this seems to be misguided by
many other external factors, including self-promoting, education and fear.
Conclusion: Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The
real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.? ?? FD. Roosevelt. As it is the case of the choice of spine surgeon.
Nikova Aleksandrina Sasheva is a neurosurgical resident at Metaxa Cancer Hospital, Athens Greece. She is the mentor of fundamental neuroscience for neuroimaging by Johns Hopkins. She is mentor of social psychology for Wesleyan university and member of the medical association of Greece and Switzerland.
E-mail: nikovaalex@gmail.com
