WILLPOWER MELTDOWN SOMETIMES

Takanori Fukushima

• Neurosurgeon should understand 4 kinds of anatomy; normal anatomy, normal variations, displaced anatomy, neurosurgical anatomy.
• Anatomy, anatomy, anatomy!
• One time surgery for cure!

Kataoka

• Appropriate surgical indications; preoperative strategy and preparation; reliable surgical technique; sound intraoperative judgment; mastery of potential pitfalls and their solutions; and final decision-making.
• Successful experience must be deliberately repeated. Otherwise, unsuccessful patterns will be repeated unconsciously. The point is not merely to learn from failure, but to transform failure into future success.