手术室里一个患脑肿瘤的病人正躺在手术台上。一个新近毕业的外科实习医生迅速地在他的头骨上开了个口,把肿瘤切除。几小时后病人死了。那是一八九五年的事。在那些年代里动脑外科手术的病人十有八九都得丧命。二十五年后,就是那个年轻的实习医生——哈维·库欣,扭转了这种局面:十有八九动脑外科手术的病人都得救了,从而使他成为当代伟大的 A patient with a brain tumor in the operating room is lying on the operating table. A newly graduated surgical intern quickly opened his skull and removed the tumor. A few hours later the patient died. That was 1895. Patients who had brain surgery during those years were killed in ten. Twenty-five years later, the young intern, Xavi Cushing, reversed the situation: in all likelihood, patients who underwent brain surgery were saved, making him a great contemporary