Adi Kumar

11 things I know at 37 I wish I'd know at 27.

For surgeons and doctors 🧵

Are surgeons technically less skilled than their trainers?

From the 100th society of British neurological surgeons meeting this month.

Also, have “principles” (decision making) stayed the same?

The mature healer is not the one who controls everything, but the one who can act decisively, acknowledge what they cannot control, ask for help when necessary, and remain sufficiently open to be astonished by the patient's - and life's - capacity to heal.

12 years later and back at the ST1 “bootcamp” for neurosurgical trainees.

Still learning from other consultants. The Tsang ABC for TBI was a highlight.

Any suggestions for Y and Z welcome.

As true today as it was in 1947.

Simone de Beauvoir - The Ambiguity of Ethics