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01 / belief
“I think we’ll have a very effective treatment for depression and certain mental diseases, things where it’s circuitry that’s involved but the biology is still intact.”
02 / belief
“I’m not saying that should be done because I think we’d all like our freedoms and not like to be under that kind of scrutiny.”
03 / belief
“I would say the middle of that bell-shaped curve is going to be late 60s, early 70s.”
04 / belief
“I think the Holy Grail for us is to put down the scalpel and to not have to drill through the skull and to be able to deliver energy into the brain without opening up the head.”
05 / belief
“I think we’re as happy as our last operation went, honestly. Yes, if you go to a neurosurgery meeting, people have smiles on their faces, and they’re going out and shaking hands and telling funny stories and enjoying each other’s company.”
06 / belief
“One thing that I realized is, no matter where I am, there’s always part of me that’s thinking about the patients that are in the hospital that I operated on last week and how they’re doing, and maybe one of them is struggling a little bit, and I have to be aware of that.”
07 / belief
“I think that the undergraduate education — liberal arts — I was a philosophy and English major, which was wonderful, and I loved the expanding universe that I explored.”
08 / belief
“I think, yes, there’s always going to be politics involved, and we always come to any problem from a unique single perspective, and institutions are going to have their biases.”
09 / belief
“I think that changes person to person. I know some neurosurgeons who are quite talented, and they are humble, sweet.”
10 / belief
“Again, I’m not arguing with the training part. I think we could do it much more quickly, for sure.”
11 / belief
“” I think you have to be confident, but you have to be humble at the same time, and you have to have just that right balance.”
12 / belief
“If you look at Freud from a feminist perspective, and you don’t like penis envy, or you look at the Oedipal complex and just judge him that way, then sure, there’s a lot to criticize. But if you look at his structure of the mind and how he subverted the power of the ego and validated the unconscious, I think he was brilliant.”