Today, eighteen years after my first visit to Ukraine, Igor is one of the most successful and famous neurosurgeons in the country, practising modern neurosurgery which is directly equivalent to what is available in the West. The journey has not been easy, and his problems continue.
With the support of Academician Romadanov I was able to bring Igor to London to work with me as an observer for three months. It became a hospital joke that Igor rarely seemed to go to bed at night – instead he was to be found photo-copying my entire library of neurosurgical texts or filling one of the forty notebooks with which he recorded his visit. He would make diagrams and write notes on every operation and every instrument he had seen. He also used to write down everything I said, as though I were some kind of oracle. Read the entire article here.
