Blog Posts
Of Spider Webs and Spinal Cords: Dr. McCormick’s Rare Surgery
What do spider webs have to do with spinal cords? The answer can be found in a thin, gauzy layer of tissue, called the arachnoid membrane, which surrounds and protects the spinal cord…
Dr. McCormick’s Patient Pete Wants People to Believe His Story—Even Though ‘It’s the Internet’
“You can’t always trust what you read online,” says Pete Mandelkern. That said, he really wants people to listen to him about back surgery. “Dr. McCormick changed my life,” he says. Before he saw Dr. Paul McCormick, Director of the Spine Hospital at the Neurological Institute of New York, Pete went to the Hospital website […]
Dr. McCormick Demonstrates the Complexity of Cauda Equina Tumor Surgery
There is uniformity to the bumps of the spine we see running up and down our backs, but under the skin there is a very different picture. The bones themselves vary in shape, and the spinal cord inside isn't as uniform as you might think. The length of the spinal cord...