Allan is a clinical neurologist and professor of neurology – he admits that most people have no idea what that means
Basically, he is an expert on what the brain does right and does wrong: “language, sensation, and emotion; walking, falling, weakness, tremors, and coordination; memory, incapacity, delays in development ; anxiety, pain, stress, even death.”
The main part of his job – and the toughest – involves trying to understand ‘a sick brain’
Allan says you cure a sick brain by ‘engaging with the person inside’. Listening is the best skill a doctor can have
“They all just want and need to tell their stories, to be heard” – this means that diagnosis and treatments are mostly on a case by case basis; hard to apply a formula
