Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain

by Allan H. Ropper

practice of my craft, the clinical part of it, is the systematic, logical, deductive method that was in the past applicable to all branches of medicine, but now resides mainly in neurology.

shift to modern diagnosis but neurology still based largely on doctors close analysing skills

“That’s typical for a butterfly glioma infiltrating the frontal lobes,” I say, referring to his spreading, malignant brain tumor.

so bizarre for this to be seen as a shock factor for the casual reader but so ordinary to mention in his conversations

Every gesture, every movement, every inflection of speech, every reflex, all of these point to the precise location of the problem in the nervous system, and to its cause.

this is so impressive i didnt know they could do that