Dr. Philip Stieg, Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Weill Cornell, was featured on the premiere episode of Season 2 of the ABC series NY Med. In this episode, Dr. Stieg performed surgery to remove a spinal tumor from a man threatened with paralysis.
Dr. Stieg blogged about his experience on the show, and about his life as a neurosurgeon, on ABCNews.com: How ‘NY Med’ Neurosurgeon Prepares Patients for ‘New Me’