Dr. Erich G. Anderer

I appreciate you having me on.

Sure.

As mentioned, my name is Eric Anderer.

I'm the chief of neurosurgery at NYU Langone Hospital, Brooklyn.

Um, I'm also the, uh, the co-director of a perioperative services, um, sort of a title that used to be known as surgeon in chief.

Um, so help run the ORS in Brooklyn.

I was born in Japan, grew up in New York, been in Brooklyn for the past 20 some odd years.

So it really was sort of an honor when I was asked to sort of head up the neurosurgery effort in Brooklyn at the former Lutheran Medical Center.

So I've been there since the NYU merger in 2016, and it's been almost 10 great years there.

Sure.

I mean, there's so much to talk about.

I mean, obviously the landscape is constantly changing, but I would say that the things that are sort of top of mind for me, number one would be sort of access to information.

I mean, it's something that, you know, with the internet, with, you know, influencer culture, with, you know, sort of the inundation of information out there.

from various sources.

I think in a lot of ways, it's had a positive influence on the way that I think people experience healthcare.

And what I mean by that is this sort of democratization of information, I think has been helpful for people to be

informed, let's say, about their conditions and such.

So I don't think it's ever going to replace going to a doctor.

And I think that really the best thing to do when you have questions about your health, about, you know, something going on with you and one of your loved ones is to maybe take some of that information that you digest from other sources and really sort of help, you know, sort of formulate questions, I think, that you can kind of go in with and be

that much more informed when you go to your visit and get that much more out of your visit with your physicians.