Nagy Mohamed Elsayyad, MD

Description

Medicine is not an occupation but a vocation. Over the centuries, physicians' role and status in society have been not merely based on sharing their professional expertise or on simply providing a "service" but on their voluntary willingness and deep desire to address and hopefully allay human suffering. Knowledge should not supersede Wisdom and Cleverness should not outshine Common Sense. Leaving well alone and remembering that medical practice is an Art before it is a Science are fundamental notions that physicians should aspire to. The cure of disease should not be more grievous than its endurance. Patients should not be treated as "cases" and doctors are not merely "providers". Humanism and compassion are the guiding principles for any physician.

Keywords acoustic neuroma, skull base tumor, paraganglioma, myxopapillary ependymoma, radiation necrosis, triple negative breast cancer, radiofrequency ablation of metastatic spine tumors, stereotactic spine radiosurgery, unsealed source radiotherapy, combined modality therapy, xofigo, tomotherapy, three dimensional conformal radiation therapy, stereotactic body radiation therapy, radioembolization, radiation toxicity, orbital tumors, neoadjuvant chemotherapy, mammosite, low dose rate brachytherapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy, high dose rate brachytherapy, external beam radiation therapy, chemoradiation, brachytherapy.