A neurosurgeon at UVA Health, Shayan Moosa, MD, helps sufferers with circumstances of the nervous system, together with motion problems, epilepsy, power ache, nerve accidents, and tumors.
Meet a Charlottesville-Based Neurosurgeon
We requested Moosa to reply our 7 fast questions.
1. What most impressed and formed your strategy to affected person care?
I believe what’s most impressed my strategy to affected person care is the experiences I’ve had with neurosurgeons I’ve labored with up to now, who’ve actually devoted a lot of their time and power to serving to their sufferers in the easiest way doable. These surgeons actually deal with their sufferers as in the event that they’re their very own members of the family. They’ll actually do something to assist obtain the perfect consequence. And that is one thing I’ve actually modeled after.
2. What’s your favourite a part of your job?
Seeing the profound influence I can have on sufferers’ lives. I can actually, really perceive their illness course of and mix that with my understanding of the nervous system and my potential to do surgical procedure, along side the cutting-edge expertise that now we have at UVA Health. Using all that collectively, we are able to have a profound influence on sufferers’ lives to carry them again to their regular neurological operate.
3. What’s your largest concern once you’re a affected person?
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Not really understanding what’s occurring. All of a sudden you go from having a traditional life to out of the blue you are deteriorating to a illness course of that you’ve got by no means had earlier than. You do not perceive how your physique is altering. You could also be interacting with a number of completely different physicians and will not be getting simple solutions. You could also be getting completely different solutions from completely different physicians. I believe we are able to alleviate these fears by having somebody clarify the illness course of to the affected person very nicely and taking the time to try this.
4. What do you do for stress aid?
I’m a runner. So on the finish of an extended day, I prefer to go residence, and often I’ll run open air. I discover that actually meditative.
5. Dogs or cats?
I’m a canine individual.
6. What’s the final film you noticed? Thumbs up or down?
Everything Everywhere All at Once. It’s sort of like a thriller, nevertheless it’s additionally a comedy and in addition sci-fi. And it actually offers with how our selections influence how our lives are formed.
7. What’s the perfect recommendation you’ve got ever heard?
Always keep true to your self. You know, there are various hardships that we expertise in life and you’ll actually tackle plenty of these items, however in the event you keep true to your self and your morals and beliefs, then that actually provides which means to the actions that you simply carry out and to your life.