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Balloon Helps Doctor Reach Brain Tumor
Anml4ixoye writes "A neurosurgeon at Cincinnati Children's Hospital has succesfully completed removal of a tumor in an previously thought inoperable part of the brain. The doctor, Kerry Crone expanded a balloon at the end of a cathader to push the neurons aside and remove the tumor, which was located at the thalamus. CNN is also running the story."
The misspelled word is in the freakin' article! Why not kill two birds with one stone and actually read the article before submitting it?
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What's sadder is that they also misspelled successfully. What's saddest is that we're actually being this anal about spelling. Does the spelling really matter? It's readable, isn't it?
It's rather sad that this brilliant breakthrough in neural surgery has generated such a lackluster response on this forum. Absolutely no sense of acknowledgement of what a completely righteous hack this is to deal with a rather fatal problem.
Quick, someone bring SCO up, I'm sure we can break the comments on this article up to at least low single digits instead of the twenty odd present.
But cheesy acronyms are very useful, especially for the public, who can be in most cases assumed to have a short attention span. People are more likely to remember something called "SMART surgery" than some obscure acronym like "PTODPTTBIBT" ("Procedure To Operate On Deep, Previously Thought To Be Inoperable Brain Tumors").
"SMART" is also a little bit easier to pronounce.