Becoming a Doctor: Neurosurgery with Dr. Joshua Rosenow

Dr. Ogan Gurel interviews Dr. Joshua Rosenow (Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery and Director of Functional Neurosurgery at Northwestern University) about the specialty of neurological surgery along with some general advice on becoming a doctor.

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For Dr. Rosenow's discussion on functional neurosurgery (aimed at a physician audience) see the InTimeTV Insights in Medicine internet TV talk show episode "Advances in Functional Neurosurgery" at:

mms://68.251.204.75/video/intimetv/iim023.wmv

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• Neurosurgery
• Neurological
• Surgery
• Joshua
• Rosenow
• Preparing
• career
• medicine
• InTimeTV
• Future
• Doctor
• Functional
• pre-med
• premed
• Ogan
• Gurel

[skimsk808]

"keep an open mind and something will come to you."

Uhhhg! I wish i could keep an open wallet and college money would come to me -_-'

[CyJoZa]

Pros of being NS: - You get to tell people you are a neurosurgeon. Cons: - 7 years residency - Highest insurance rates - Patients are mostly no-hopers - Subdural hematoma's and slipped disks are all you have to look forward too - Research - Forgetting what your family looks like - Poking around a tiny area for hours - Ortho's laughing at you - Having to work with ortho's The lolz of being a NS resident.

[bjapan96]

@CyJoZa pros: making 500k +

[docmony91]

i wish i could be neurosurgery doctor

[dantedantedante123]

I'm specializing in neuroscience in my undergrad (4th), but I got to say, the current theories and conceptions I've learned and is being accepted and advocated by the scientific community (apparently it's good enough to be published in student textbooks), especially about personality, conciousness and throught processes seem like bull-shit to me. So I want to do my own research (along with an MD... hope I get accpeted) & see for myself how God designed what he did, the brain.

[AndroidTokyo]

Simply Inspirational , Just What I Needed.

[XOalakanaXO]

This was very helpful, thanks for posting.

[CyJoZa]

@Tahmmo Research basically is cross referencing everything, over and over and over and over and over and over again. Then you pray it gets peer reviewed otherwise your screwed.

And Ortho's are considered to have drawn the lucky card out of all the surgical specialties.

[Tahmmo]

Why is research a bad thing?

And why would ortho's laugh at you?

[EcstasyBen]

They come out in debt but they also start off with a 6 figure job (in most cases).

You're better off coming out of medical school with a $350K debt (including undergrad) than out of undergrad with some leisure arts degree with $100K debt.