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Where are the best neurosurgeons?

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newzyork - 21 May 2006 05:27 GMT
How do you find out who has done epilepsy surgery successfully and how
many times they have performed it? Who are the best neurologist and
neurosurgeons ? And where are they?
We have no idea how to find that one in a million neurological team.
Anyone out there know of one?
newz york
paul.chiasson@ns.sympatico.ca - 23 May 2006 22:47 GMT
In the US, the best bet is probably Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston?).
The world premiere hospital for research and surgery is the University of
McGill's Montreal Neurological Institute, founded and directed by an ex-patriate
American, Wilder Penfield, in the 1930's.  These are questions you should be
asking your personal physicians/neurologists; the Net is a false gamble because
it is a place prone to opinion, rather than hard fact, so anyone and everyone on
this or any other list will have their personal preferences.  I list the one's I
did not from my own experience, but purely by reputation and reported peer
results.  Any neurologist worth their stethoscope will tell you something
similar about both places.

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> How do you find out who has done epilepsy surgery successfully and how
> many times they have performed it? Who are the best neurologist and
> neurosurgeons ? And where are they?
> We have no idea how to find that one in a million neurological team.
> Anyone out there know of one?
> newz york
Liz MacDonald - 23 May 2006 23:55 GMT
I had my successful surgery at Mass General.  My neurosurgeon Rees
Cosgrove trained at McGill.
Liz

> In the US, the best bet is probably Massachusetts General Hospital
> (Boston?). The world premiere hospital for research and surgery is the
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> ai714@chebucto.ns.ca
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Dave Keays - 24 May 2006 07:06 GMT
> In the US, the best bet is probably Massachusetts General Hospital
> (Boston?). The world premiere hospital for research and surgery is the
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> reported peer results.  Any neurologist worth their stethoscope will
> tell you something similar about both places.

I haven't been either place but I can say by experience the best in southern
California is both Kaiser Permanente (Dr Richard Kim) and USC (Dr Chris DeGiorgio).

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> Paul J. Chiasson
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> ai714@chebucto.ns.ca
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howdydave - 11 Jun 2006 07:09 GMT
Howdy!

I would suggest that you take a look at the following site:

FIND AN EPILEPSY CENTER
http://www.naecepilepsy.org/centers/centers.html

It doesn't list them all, just members of NAEC
(National Ass'n. of Epilepsy Centers.)

Dave

> > In the US, the best bet is probably Massachusetts General Hospital
> > (Boston?). The world premiere hospital for research and surgery is the
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> > ai714@chebucto.ns.ca
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Salami Man - 19 Jun 2006 15:08 GMT
I have had excellent experiences with the following teams:
http://www.mtnneuro.com/neurosurgery.html
http://www.ashneuro.com/

I have no complaints with these teams.  However, if you are going to do
surgery, neurological treatment, etc., you probably want to find something
closer to home... (IMHO)

> How do you find out who has done epilepsy surgery successfully and how
> many times they have performed it? Who are the best neurologist and
> neurosurgeons ? And where are they?
> We have no idea how to find that one in a million neurological team.
> Anyone out there know of one?
> newz york
Beach Runner - 15 Jul 2006 14:01 GMT
> I have had excellent experiences with the following teams:
> http://www.mtnneuro.com/neurosurgery.html
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> > Anyone out there know of one?
> > newz york

The June 17rth edition of US News and World Reports has their annual
best hopitals
in America report.  The exhaustive study reports the Mayo clinic as
number 1 in
Neurology. That's where I would go.

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