John Bertoni: I don’t know if I’m going to be duplicating myself but did I ever tell you the story? I didn’t see it marked that we had done it before, a podcast about doing Pneumoencephalograms. Danish Bhatti: No, tell me about it. John Bertoni: My fourth year of medical school at University of Michigan. We had really excellent neuro radiologists and I wanted to spend time with them. I think I may have been with them for somewhere between a month or two somewhere in that time and I did neuropathology that year. I did a 10 week experience in Newcastle upon Tyne in England with John Walton and Peter Hudson and actually a guy who became a friend of mine from Mayo Clinic and what I really liked was the time I spent in radiology. At the same time there was a neurosurgery resident. I won’t give you his name because this wasn’t really such a well done day that we had. We wer e doing Pneumo-Encephalograms. We did not have MRI scans at that time. And I think CAT scans were just coming in to play. So when we wanted to evaluate people with hydrocephalus, we would […]

Danish Bhatti: All right. Let’s try again. John Bertoni: You’re going to use your other system. Danish Bhatti: Yeah John Bertoni: I find like yesterday when I wanted to say a few things in the middle of the night. I had an epiphany. That means all of a sudden something becomes clear. So in the middle of the night you might say what a great idea. You just had in the morning you listen. You can’t make any sense of it. It’s like I just had this fantastic dream. Try to write it down and the next morning you’re looking at scribble that looks like a Parkinson’s you know really. Danish Bhatti: You can read it or if you read it, it does not make sense like the idea don’t make sense. John Bertoni: Either way. You can’t read it or if you can read it. you say “What?” you know because you’re half asleep you may not be out of sleep. So. You were just saying that you’re trying to slow down but you’re speeding up. Danish Bhatti: I think what I mean is that I’m slowing down in the sense of I’m becoming more focused on what I […]

Danish Bhatti: So I think we started doing this coffee to chat about things. I don’t know. I don’t even know why but we started doing it in a flick and we were talking about. I think we realized that there are many topics that interest us both which are way beyond medicine topics about success how to solve the problems of life why people make mistakes why people make choices that do philosophy, mythology, psychology history. John Bertoni: Right. Danish Bhatti: We have read similar greek authors and things like. John Bertoni: That the epic of Gilgamesh together. Yeah. Danish Bhatti: So that was the primary purpose that we were talking about ideas that were dear to us that we felt important. And I felt I was learning a lot and I hope you felt you were teaching me a lot. It was like a mentoring relationship outside of medicine about life in general not just Movement Disorder. John Bertoni: No, I enjoy these very much not just enjoy them but I find them very valuable. I learn a lot if only to clarify my own thinking. But you actually are wise beyond years and you understand a great […]