Ethical requisites of basic knowledge, diagnostic procedures and operative techniques in neurosurgical training and practice.

Abstract

Since the time the pioneering days of neurosurgery have ended, a certain trivialization has occurred in this highly select discipline. The consequences are important: lessened professional pride, and diminished feeling of belonging to a special group, to an elite. This evolution is caused by the fast growing number of neurosurgeons and by certain aspects of democratization.