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IHDR \ pHYs .# .#x?v -iTXtXML:com.adobe.xmp Dr. Dickerman a neurosurgeon and UNT Health Science Center alumnus recognized that surgery was required and stood over her one morning at Presbyterian Hospital of Plano gazing steely-eyed through a microscope as he made a 20-millimeter incision in her lower back. Meticulously he sliced through muscle and drilled through bone to remove the disc without disturbing the web of sensitive nerves surrounding it. “When you’re a neurosurgeon people assume you spend all your time doing brain surgery and in fact we did a brain tumor last week said Dr. Dickerman eyes still to the microscope. “But 80 percent of what we do is helping people with spine conditions like this that damage their quality of life.” Dr. Dickerman’s ability to restore or improve patients’ quality of lives is why he is considered among the best neurosurgeons in the United States. The 1998 graduate of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine at UNTHSC operates the Plano-based North Texas Spine and Brain Institute. ©UNTHSC Dr. Dickerman, a neurosurgeon and UNT Health Science Center alumnus, recognized that surgery was required and stood over her one morning at Presbyterian Hospital of Plano, gazing steely-eyed through a microscope as he made a 20-millimeter incision in her lower back.
Meticulously, he sliced through muscle and drilled through bone to remove the disc without disturbing the web of sensitive nerves surrounding it.
“When you’re a neurosurgeon people assume you spend all your time doing brain surgery and, in fact, we did a brain tumor last week, said Dr. Dickerman, eyes still to the microscope. “But 80 percent of what we do is helping people with spine conditions like this that damage their quality of life.”
Dr. Dickerman’s ability to restore or improve patients’ quality of lives is why he is considered among the best neurosurgeons in the United States. The 1998 graduate of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine at UNTHSC operates the Plano-based North Texas Spine and Brain Institute.
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