David Menon: the incredible, incurable, clinical rationalist

“I have this urge to find explanations, and I can't seem to get rid of it”, confesses David Menon, Professor of Anaesthesia at University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK), referring to his Twitter profile that neatly labels him as an incurable clinical rationalist. Menon suggests that, for him, evidence alone is not quite enough; “why have we got this result—this is the question that consumes me”, he explains. There is something particularly reassuring about a doctor who is a self-confessed knowledge-addict—this may well be the essence of Menon. The chronic and evolving neurological consequences of traumatic brain injuryTraumatic brain injury (TBI) can have lifelong and dynamic effects on health and wellbeing. Research on the long-term consequences emphasises that, for many patients, TBI should be conceptualised as a chronic health condition. Evidence suggests that functional outcomes after TBI can show improvement or deterioration up to two decades after injury, and rates of all-cause mortality remain elevated for many years. Furthermore, TBI represents a risk factor for a variety of neurological illnesses, including epilepsy, stroke, and neurodegenerative disease. Full-Text PDF