{"id":290,"date":"2011-08-03T16:21:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T23:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/?p=290"},"modified":"2011-08-03T16:23:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T23:23:01","slug":"dr-spetzler-is-supposed-to-be-the-best-there-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Spetzler is supposed to be the best there is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Robert Spetzler of Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ\u00a0 is considered a pioneer in his field and one of the best neurological surgeons in the world. \u00a0 He has authored hundreds of articles and developed tools and techniques that have changed and improved the neurosurgical techniques being used today. \u00a0\u00a0 He&#8217;s not good at what he does, he&#8217;s the BEST at what he does and is breaking new ground for those following him. \u00a0\u00a0 Have you ever joked at work &#8220;This isn&#8217;t brain surgery&#8221;?\u00a0 He can&#8217;t say that, and I seriously doubt they bother with the &#8220;It&#8217;s not Rocket Science&#8221; thing at BNI.\u00a0 His patients are referred from all over the world, often to handle the difficult cases that other surgeons may not be comfortable attempting.<\/p>\n<p>Tamara flew out of Orlando this morning to Phoenix.\u00a0 This Friday, Dr. Spetzler will be removing a Cavernous Malformation from the medulla oblongata area of her brain, the lower part of the brain stem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebarrow.org\">http:\/\/www.thebarrow.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebarrow.org\/Neurological_Services\/Aneurysms_and_Cerebrovascular_Disorders\/203377\">www.thebarrow.org\/Neurological_Services\/Aneurysms_and_Cerebrovascular_Disorders\/203377<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As serious as this is, and it is extremely serious or she would not be there, she knows she has the best of the best taking care of her, as do I.<\/p>\n<p>We expect to be home late next week.\u00a0 Of course, we&#8217;re saying prayers, and thinking positive thoughts, but it sure is good to know a physician with this man&#8217;s credentials is on this case.\u00a0 He KNOWS what he is doing.\u00a0 We have no doubt of that.<\/p>\n<p>Try as I might with all my athletic endeavers to impress her, I just can&#8217;t get the upper hand.\u00a0 &#8220;Yea, you&#8217;ve done 3 Badwaters and whatever else&#8230; big deal, have 3 babies and brain surgery, then come talk to me about tough, Mr.&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to argue that for a second.<\/p>\n<p>I love you honey, all is going to be fine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TamiMRI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-292\" title=\"TamiMRI\" src=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TamiMRI-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TamiMRI-244x300.jpg 244w, http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TamiMRI.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Robert Spetzler of Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ\u00a0 is considered a pioneer in his field and one of the best neurological surgeons in the world. \u00a0 He has authored hundreds of articles and developed tools and techniques that have changed and improved the neurosurgical techniques being used today. \u00a0\u00a0 He&#8217;s not good at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irun100s.com\/daveharper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}