“Last night we operated on a pole dancer, who, while performing the Crooked Chopsticks manoeuvre, slipped and fractured her cervical spine,” presented a neurosurgery resident. This exotic discussion took place at the weekly clinical-case discussion meeting, which I attended on a recent visit to the Cleveland Clinic in America. While I got into the nitty-gritty of spine stabilisation and fixation techniques, I couldn’t help but speculate over the kind of medicine that’s practised in the United States and the kind we’re exposed to here, in India.
