David Frim, MD, explains what makes the University of Chicago Medicine's Neurosurgery department so unique.
[MUSIC PLAYING] DAVID FRIM: So the things that are so special here-- unique in many ways-- on how we treat our patients have to do with the people. They have to do with the environment. And they have to do with the technology that we have available. With regards to neurosurgery, we have a fabulous array of faculty, all of whom specialize in a specific area of neurosurgery, be it, brain tumor treatment, or epilepsy treatment, or treatment of disorders of the spine, or treatment of children who have neurosurgical problems. Aside from that, all of the faculty are excellent general neurosurgeons, able to treat almost anything that would arise commonly. We have stupendous support from the nursing staff, which is also specialized to care for specific subsets of patients. We have a neurosurgical intensive care unit that we share with our neuromedical colleagues, and then a special care center on the regular hospital floor for the neurosciences patients. The technology that we use is state-of-the-art in many ways. And our abilities to navigate through the brain and spine, our abilities to diagnose problems before we operate on them and especially individualized plan for our patient are greatly enhanced by that. I think that the patient experience here is outstanding. And part of that has to do with how well coordinated all of us are amongst each other and with the patient and their family.
