Matthew MacDougall

Yeah. It's especially challenging when you with all respect to our elders, it doesn't hit so much when you're taking care of an 80 year old and something was going to get them pretty soon anyway. And so you lose a patient like that. And it was part of the natural course of what is expected of them in the coming years, regardless. Taking care of

you know, a father of two or three, four young kids, someone in their 30s that didn't have it coming, and they show up in your ER having their first seizure of their life, and lo and behold, they've got a huge malignant, inoperable, or incurable brain tumor. You can only do that, I think, a handful of times before it really starts eating away at your at your armor.

you know, a father of two or three, four young kids, someone in their 30s that didn't have it coming, and they show up in your ER having their first seizure of their life, and lo and behold, they've got a huge malignant, inoperable, or incurable brain tumor. You can only do that, I think, a handful of times before it really starts eating away at your at your armor.

you know, a father of two or three, four young kids, someone in their 30s that didn't have it coming, and they show up in your ER having their first seizure of their life, and lo and behold, they've got a huge malignant, inoperable, or incurable brain tumor. You can only do that, I think, a handful of times before it really starts eating away at your at your armor.

Or a young mother that shows up that has a giant hemorrhage in her brain that she's not going to survive from, and they bring her four-year-old daughter in to say goodbye one last time before they turn the ventilator off. The great Henry Marsh is an English neurosurgeon who said it best. I think he says, every neurosurgeon carries with them a private graveyard.

Or a young mother that shows up that has a giant hemorrhage in her brain that she's not going to survive from, and they bring her four-year-old daughter in to say goodbye one last time before they turn the ventilator off. The great Henry Marsh is an English neurosurgeon who said it best. I think he says, every neurosurgeon carries with them a private graveyard.

Or a young mother that shows up that has a giant hemorrhage in her brain that she's not going to survive from, and they bring her four-year-old daughter in to say goodbye one last time before they turn the ventilator off. The great Henry Marsh is an English neurosurgeon who said it best. I think he says, every neurosurgeon carries with them a private graveyard.

And I definitely feel that, especially with young parents. That kills me. They had a lot more to give. The loss of those people specifically has a knock-on effect that's going to make the world worse for people for a long time. And it's just hard to feel powerless in the face of that.

And I definitely feel that, especially with young parents. That kills me. They had a lot more to give. The loss of those people specifically has a knock-on effect that's going to make the world worse for people for a long time. And it's just hard to feel powerless in the face of that.

And I definitely feel that, especially with young parents. That kills me. They had a lot more to give. The loss of those people specifically has a knock-on effect that's going to make the world worse for people for a long time. And it's just hard to feel powerless in the face of that.

You know, and that's where I think you have to be borderline evil to fight against a company like Neuralink or to constantly be taking potshots at us because what we're doing is to try to fix that stuff. We're trying to give people options to reduce suffering. We're trying to We're trying to take the pain out of life that broken brains brings in.

You know, and that's where I think you have to be borderline evil to fight against a company like Neuralink or to constantly be taking potshots at us because what we're doing is to try to fix that stuff. We're trying to give people options to reduce suffering. We're trying to We're trying to take the pain out of life that broken brains brings in.

You know, and that's where I think you have to be borderline evil to fight against a company like Neuralink or to constantly be taking potshots at us because what we're doing is to try to fix that stuff. We're trying to give people options to reduce suffering. We're trying to We're trying to take the pain out of life that broken brains brings in.

And yeah, this is just our little way that we're fighting back against entropy, I guess.

And yeah, this is just our little way that we're fighting back against entropy, I guess.

And yeah, this is just our little way that we're fighting back against entropy, I guess.

Yeah, we're just starting. We're going to do so much more.

Yeah, we're just starting. We're going to do so much more.

Yeah, we're just starting. We're going to do so much more.

Yeah, it's a really simple, really simple, straightforward procedure. The human part of the surgery that I do is... Dead simple. It's one of the most basic neurosurgery procedures imaginable. And I think there's evidence that some version of it has been done for thousands of years. There are examples, I think, from ancient Egypt of healed or partially healed trephinations and from...