Category Archives: Work

Today was my ninth day in elGouna, I came here with the intent of spending three days and ended up staying indefinitely!! I have been flooded with work, mainly a very complicated case of pneumococcal meningitis with communicating hydrocephalus. The … Continue reading →

Last week was really different to me, I decided to change many things in my life, and to start being more serious about certain things. It started in elGouna when I operated on an occipital extradural, then cam eto Cairo … Continue reading →

Those of you who happen to know me have noticed that I have become exceptionally busy lately. I don’t know why but I didnt expect Ramadan to be so full of work, specially surgeries, usually patients like to postpone their … Continue reading →

Today the scientific board at the department of NeuroSurgery approved my M.D. Thesis protocole. It is about the surgical approaches to a certain type of tumors occuring in the base of the skull. I will be supervised by Prof. Dr. … Continue reading →

It is Friday, at last!! It has been one big week I think to myself, where it started Last Saturday when I scrubbed twice in KasrelAiny, went home to make preparations for my trip to elGouna Sunday Morning. I was … Continue reading →

Last Thursday I scrubbed in a very difficult case, a left petroclival Meningioma, went in through the Subtemporal approach, utilised everything from the brain lab to the CUSA!!! But still we continued from 9 am till 9 pm!! We had … Continue reading →

Back in Cairo I am where I have like 10 things to do this morning including going to the bank, having a hair cut, taking my car to the shop for maintenance and attending Amr Ashrafs thesis defense!! I have … Continue reading →

Today I attended a really interresting surgery, It was called IGS assisted Endoscopic removal of a third ventricular colloid cyst!! Gotcha In english this means that there is a patient which had a cyst in her brain (actually inside one … Continue reading →