Introduction. The importance of understanding the medicolegal climate in neurosurgery

Affiliations

• ¹ 1Department of Neurosurgery, LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana.
• ² 2New Jersey Pediatric Neuroscience Institute, Morristown, New Jersey.
• ³ 3Department of Neuroscience, The MetroHealth System, Cleveland, Ohio.
• ⁴ 4Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
• ⁵ 5Department of Neurosurgery, North Mississippi Medical Center, Tupelo, Mississippi.
• ⁶ 6Department of Neurosurgery, University of Caxias do Sul, Brazil; and.
• ⁷ 7NeoSpine, Puyallup, Washington.