Anesthesiology as a clinical field is, at its core, fundamentally neuroscientific. The neuroscience core focuses on topics (conscious, cognition, neurophysiology) that have profound scientific and even existential implication.
To determine the association between race and access to healthcare services with respect to the treatment of spinal cord disorders, a retrospective cohort study of patients receiving an initial diagnosis, two Boston hospitals, September 1, 2017, to June 1, 2018, follow-up through December 31, 2019. Data from patients (18-89 years) diagnosed with spinal cord disorders were extracted retrospectively from a centralized database. Kaplan-Meier curves and multivariable Cox proportional hazards models analyzed the time to spine surgery following initial diagnosis.