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Ever since the initial post mortem description by Chiari in 1891 of the group

Of malformations that bears his name, it seems there have always been more questions

On this subject than answers.

....Ball and Crone

Conversations with Dr.Abdul Adim Ben Ashor, (AABA) Consultant Neurosurgeon

Trained in Christian Albrecht University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

The support specialties are the eyes and physicians of the surgeons. This was taught to me by my father, a Cardiac anesthetist. Finding myself in a support specialty (Radiology) I have found this lesson useful over the years, if one has to retain relevance one has to be the eyes and physicians of the surgeons, and guide them through their adventures and ‘misadventures'.

The way one looks at the posterior fossa and base of skull, is one of the distinguishing features between a person who knows how to read a MRI and the ones who just pass off a few changes in the normal template.

From passionate reformers, ethical scientist torch bearers, to grumbling egoists, and degenerate commission seekers, they come in all shades of grey.

Here are some conversations with Neurosurgeons.

Does a poor man not have neurological illness?

He was the best singer of us all. The strains of the sitar played by him on the 12th floor as we would feel the breeze flow from the Arabian Sea and watch Parel and Worli Sea face are still with us-deep inside. We would go to Gloria restaurant in the evenings and have Mangalorian food while he confided the nuances of his courtship. Gloria also serves liquor on the sly. He would take us through the Ragas and also gave us a window into the social reform movements of Maharashtra in the tradition of Jyotiba Phule and Bhimrao Ambedkar.