Dr. Sanjay Gupta read Dr. Theodore Schwartz's book, Gray Matters, which discusses what neurosurgeons do, what their lives are like, and what motivates them. It was described as a biography of a brain surgeon, revealing stories of the field and addressing myths about brain surgery.
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And as I read his book, Gray Matters, I realized that many people don't know a lot about what neurosurgeons do, what our lives are like, what motivates us.
You know, I felt that the public really didn't know a lot about what brain surgeons do.
But I wanted--there were so many stories that are in our field that we know very well about famous neurosurgeons that have been influential on us, famous people who've had brain surgery, what it's like to really do what we do, you know, and to make those decisions in the operating room where someone's future is really in your hands and you're responsible for their future day in and day out over a course of an entire career where you really get no break, and to put that in a way that the general public could really absorb and not be intimidated by the subject.
And it was really a passion project, and it was just so much fun because I was not only telling stories that I've always wanted to tell and put down in words, I've been talking about myself a little bit, but also researching things that I really didn't know that much about that I wanted to learn more about.
You've got to read the book. I read the book. I loved it.
