The “Informed patient” did his homework and found a solution -he found the “Informed MD” or neurosurgeon in this case. What are “Informed Patients looking for these days, the “Informed MD”. So far, after the procedure, he’s happy. It doesn’t hurt today to be “read up” both from the patient and MD side of the picture, and this story says it all. BD 
When you’re navigating around something as delicate as the brain — not to mention cutting things out of it — depth perception helps a lot.
That’s part of the reason so much brain-surgery is still done the old-fashioned way: by cutting open the skull. Endoscopes are great for many types of minimally invasive surgery, but the kind that give a 3-D view are generally too bulky for brain surgery That’s beginning to change.
Schwartz used a gizmo that sends images to a monitor, much like any endoscope; Schwartz wore special glasses that let him see the image in three dimensions. “You suddenly feel like you’re sitting right inside his head,” Schwartz says. The device was made by a company called Visionsense; Schwartz says he has no financial ties to the company.
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/07/01/brain-surgery-via-the-nostril/
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