Stephen King: Bridging the Great Divide
Jeremy BullmoreThere are many excellent scientific journals devoted to neurosurgery. Month by month, they publish learned papers, each having been subjected to rigorous peer review, that chronicle the latest discoveries, hypotheses, case-studies and innovations in the neurosurgery world. And the shocking thing is this: they are never read by neurosurgeons.
Those very men and women who earn their livings in the operating theatres, holding scalpel and trepan and the lives of others in their hands, wilfully ignore the invaluable wisdom and teaching of others. There is a yawning gap between what is known...