Dr. Ramin Abdolvahabi Discusses Why He Became A Neurosurgeon

I was always interested in and fascinated by the human body and that's the reason a lot of physicians become physicians- because they are fascinated by the machine we call "human" so to speak. I was always fascinated by how the mind works and when I was younger I was always fascinated by thought process, how you form a thought. And actually, I was thinking of becoming a psychologist or a psychiatrist. That was because my eyes were not that good when I was younger and I could not be a fighter pilot- that was the first choice, like every boy ever wants to be a pilot. But that went away. So I was thinking of becoming actually a psychiatrist, but my father, whose an electrical engineer, got really sick and had to have a couple of operations. When he was going through that, I found that brilliant mind just shut down completely; he wasn't thinking about the way he was thinking anymore. He was just physical pain that was he was going through and because of that, it was like "hmm...maybe I should think more about doing actually a more physical aspect than a psychiatric aspect." So I picked "the best of both worlds," says neurosurgery, you know, it's something that you deal with brain and mind, and there's a lot of things we don't know about it and you also help with the physical aspect.
I wanna quote one of the first neurosurgeons that I ever worked with, who was chairman of my medical school. He always used to say, "it's the greatest job in the world, and it is the greatest job in the world there is no- you have highs and you have lows but when you have highs there is nothing like it." There is nothing like operating on a 32 year old that was diagnosed with manic schizophrenia nobody bothered to do a CT scan and find out she had a huge frontal lobe tumor and removing that tumor, she went completely back to normal, out of the psychiatric institute. It's just amazing, I mean to see- and then to me my patients that I tell people I think the bravest people you ever see it, not that many days that you can trust the center of your being which is your brain to someone else. That's what makes us us and you trust somebody else to say "ok, tinker in it." That to me is great. The patients are the most amazing people to me personally.

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