Before we get into the medical stuff, I’d like for my audience to learn a little bit about you. What made you decide to do neurosurgery for a living?Thanks for reading From Brain to Mind! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. KY: I had no idea what specialty I wanted to go into when I started medical school. Early in my first year, several students already were well along the path to their pre-decided specialty. One of them, a friend, had chosen neurosurgery. Somehow I didn’t even know that brain and spine surgery was even an option for medical students. But when I found out, I knew I wanted to learn more. So I figured out how to spend as much time as possible with the neurosurgery doctors and residents, as well as other medical students interested in neurosurgery. Because of this, I was afforded early opportunities to see brain and spine surgery firsthand, and to get an inside look into the work life of a neurosurgeon. Once I saw surgery, and got a taste of the clinical challenges neurosurgeons chose to face on a day-to-day basis, I was hooked.