{"id":492,"date":"2013-04-19T10:24:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T10:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordantheheadcase.wordpress.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2024-06-01T11:18:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T11:18:36","slug":"the-f-list-number-six-latest-update-and-the-hectic-lives-of-neurosurgeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/19\/the-f-list-number-six-latest-update-and-the-hectic-lives-of-neurosurgeons\/","title":{"rendered":"Shunt Donation Project – Latest Update (and the hectic lives of neurosurgeons)"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve just jumped in, you can read about my Shunt Donation Project (no. 6 on the List)<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

And if you’re wondering what this ‘F-List’ I keep banging on about is, you can read about that<\/span> here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Things have been busy so I have fallen a little behind this week in my to-do list.\u00a0 However, today I am back on track, people!\u00a0 Yessir!\u00a0 (Sorry.\u00a0 I can be a bit hyper in the mornings).\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday I sent a reminder to the secretary of Mr Mallucci; he told me that I would probably need to do that when I first spoke to him as he has such a hectic schedule coming up.\u00a0 Having spent so many months in the company of neurosurgeons, I do have a good idea of just how hectic they get.\u00a0 It’s not ‘hectic’ by the majority of peoples’ standards; their ‘hectic’ is enough to make one’s brain go into complete meltdown. When I was scouring neurosurgical trainee forums and chat rooms in my research for my F-List: Number Seven, I found it very interesting to see how many threads addressed the topic of how working as a neurosurgeon would impact on one’s personal life.\u00a0 It certainly is a hot subject and a genuine and serious concern of those going into the field as it\u00a0<\/em>is so completely<\/em> full on.\u00a0 I once asked my neurosurgeon how many hours a week he worked on average (he never seems to go home!) and he just laughed.\u00a0 I ventured a guess; ‘eighty?’.\u00a0 He laughed again.\u00a0 Clearly it was more than that, possibly a lot more than that.\u00a0 So this is why I am acutely aware of how I pitch my Shunt Donation Programme idea to neurosurgeons; they don’t exactly have much free time to get on board with everything that’s suggested to them.\u00a0 I have to make it sound like a worthwhile, well-researched project which won’t require masses of work on their part.\u00a0 All I want are interested and eager people; I will do the calling, emailing, travelling, collecting and dropping-off and paperwork.\u00a0 I will do the background work; I just need them to open the doors that I cannot.<\/p>\n

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The National Hospital For Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square – the one wot I own.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So today – neurosurgeons up and down the country are going to get the same email which prompted Mr Mallucci to take part.\u00a0 I am going to approach two neurosurgeons at my hospital in London.\u00a0 Sorry – it’s not ‘my’ hospital. I do not own it.\u00a0 Although I know it so well that I feel I should.\u00a0 It’s the hospital I attend.\u00a0 One of them has overseen a major surgery on me before when my neurosurgeon, Mr Watkins, was out of the country (again, he is not ‘my’ neurosurgeon.\u00a0 He is a free man.\u00a0 Although I have told him that if he ever emigrated, I would follow him and pitch a tent in his back garden rather than go to someone else).\u00a0 This neurosurgeon who stood in for Mr Watkins writes his own blog, which really inspired me to do this one.\u00a0 He is a lovely guy and has a ‘anything is possible’ approach which really shines through in his blog posts.\u00a0 So I thought he’d appreciate what I am trying to do.\u00a0 Mr Watkins is absolutely on my list but I think he may be more beneficial in the actual medical side of things, given his devotion to the treatment of hydrocephalus and research in the area.\u00a0 And as he is the busiest neurosurgeon I’ve ever come across as he travels extensively with his work, I want to have a concrete idea of what I need from him; being vague won’t really get us anywhere.\u00a0 So for now I am continuing with the surgeons and departments whom I feel will be able to give shunts.\u00a0 Then I need to start approaching those who might be able to give medical advice and maybe encourage trainees to travel out and give medical assistance to these youngsters.\u00a0 So, cup of tea and back to work!\u00a0 I shall update soon!\u00a0 Thank you all for your encouraging feedback by the way.\u00a0 Any advice or ideas are always very gratefully received and I appreciate your support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve just jumped in, you can read about my Shunt Donation Project (no. 6 on the List) here. And if you’re wondering what this ‘F-List’ I keep banging on about is, you can read about that here. Things have been busy so I have fallen a little behind this week in my to-do list.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19,22,63,74,82,103],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-charity","tag-brain","tag-brain-surgery","tag-hydrocephalus","tag-london","tag-neurosurgery","tag-shunt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/myhospital-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}