Sep 27, 2021
Let's Talk Surgery Podcast, Surgical Crossroads: Choosing your specialty - the Neurosurgery episode
Welcome back to our Surgical Crossroads series. For this episode we’re at the top of the human body – let's see what neurosurgery is all about. It's is an exciting specialty, with the human brain, for many of us, representing a frontier into the unknown. It involves high stakes surgery with cutting edge technology and fast-paced developments, requiring truly committed individuals who are willing to be flexible in terms of job opportunities.
Our consultant this episode is Mr William Taylor, who was born and brought up in the West of Scotland, attended medical school at the University of Glasgow and qualified in 1984. He was appointed as a consultant neurosurgeon at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow in 1994, with an interest in spinal surgery, but has subsequently developed a subspecialty interest in skull base surgery. He has been the Scottish Neurosurgical Training Programme director, Neurosurgical National Selection lead, JCIE board chairman and is the lead for t…