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JCO Interviews Dr. C. Norman Shealy on Holistic Health, Part 1
DR. GOTTLIEB Norm, I think our readers ought to know your background.
DR. SHEALY At age 16 I knew that I was going to be a neurosurgeon.
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My plan was to be a professor of neurological surgery and do research on the brain. I did graduate from Duke University Medical School, took a general surgery residency for a year, and then had five years of neurological residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and was involved with basic neurophysiologic research.
In , I theorized that we could control pain by stimulating the dorsal column of the spinal cord, and this actually revolutionized pain therapy in this country. From dorsal column stimulation, I very quickly moved into transcutaneous electrical stimulation, and I was really responsible for a huge surge of interest in controlling pain with electrical stimulation.
In , I realized that 94% of the people I was seeing, who were invalids with chronic pain, were not