Theodore H. Schwartz

Aug 29, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Theodore H. Schwartz

“Are you nervous?” I ask. We’re sitting in the preoperative holding area. Just me, my patient ― a 20-year-old woman ― and her parents. It’s 7:15 in the morning. They’ve been up since 4:00 — not from anxiety but because I’d asked them to arrive a few hours early to get a new MRI scan of her brain. I’ll put that updated scan into the operating room’s computer system, which I will soon rely upon to help me navigate safe passage to her tumor. But who am I kidding? They’re terrified.

Aug 15, 2024 | wsj.com | Theodore H. Schwartz

Most of the ships in a bottle you see in souvenir shops are built first, before inserting them into the bottle. Imagine having to assemble the ship, piece by piece, by working through the neck of the bottle with the bottle intact. That’s what it’s like to perform neurosurgery, a life-and-death technical exercise in which the surgeon must exert his or her will on the external world, working at the bottom of a deep, narrow corridor with a margin of error measured in millimeters.

Aug 14, 2024 | lithub.com | Theodore H. Schwartz

He glided into my office in patent leather shoes—shiny, brown, and freshly polished. His socks, a bright mustard, perfectly matched his tie as well as his handkerchief, neatly folded in his left breast pocket. Light blue pinstripes ran vertically up his gray blazer, drawing my gaze upward towards his healthy, tanned face. No surprise, his teeth were ivory and straight, almost as white as his pants. Not a hair was out of place. Article continues after advertisementHe was charming. He was Italian.

Aug 12, 2024 | redcarpetcrash.com | Theodore H. Schwartz |Kailee Marie Pedersen |Maribeth Fischer

The book is in stores on Tuesday, August 13th from Dutton. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3YnaJJPA popular biography of brain surgery, by one of its preeminent practitionersWe’ve all heard the phrase “it’s not brain surgery.” But what exactly is brain surgery? It’s a profession that is barely a hundred years old and profoundly connects two human beings, but few know how it works, or its history.

Aug 12, 2024 | redcarpetcrash.com | Kailee Marie Pedersen |Maribeth Fischer |Theodore H. Schwartz

The book is in stores on Tuesday, August 20th from St. Martin’s Press. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3WTCw3pThe last thing Nick Morrow expected to receive was an invitation from his father to return home. When he left rural Nebraska behind, he believed he was leaving everything there, including his abusive father, Carlyle, and the farm that loomed so large in memory, forever.