“I actually find it easier to do an endoscopic brain surgery than it would be to sit and meditate for that long…”
-Dr. Patrick Codd
Name: Patrick J. Codd, MD
Location: Duke University Medical Center. Durham, NC
Specialty: Neurosurgeon. Professor of Neurosurgery. Ordained Buddhist Priest.
Keith and I have long considered doing an episode on meditation. What held us back was our goal (as it is with every episode) to answer these two questions: how would the episode specifically benefit you, the physicians and medical professionals in our audience, and how would we avoid simply rehashing a well worn topic explored elsewhere? As you know, we’re not big on chasing trends here. So we tabled it, until just recently, when we came across today’s guest.
Dr. Patrick Codd earned his M.D. in the Harvard Medical School/MIT Health Science & Technology Program. He then completed his residency in Neurosurgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Patrick then served as the Director of the North Neurosurgical Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Instructor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School before joining the neurosurgery staff at Duke University Medical Center where we find him today.
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