Originally from Cork, Professor Donncha O’Brien is a neurosurgeon whose work will be seen in a new TV series that follows the work of surgeons at Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital
Donncha O’Brien features in Virgin Media’s new docuseries Brain Doctors: Inside Neurosurgery. Photo: AFIF
I’m clinical director of neurosurgery and the neurosciences at Beaumont Hospital, and while I love my job, it’s challenging, which is a very important thing to say. If you don’t believe that neurosurgery is complicated and challenging, you’re not going to succeed at it because there are hard-luck stories and bad outcomes, and they can be very upsetting.
It takes a lot of effort to get somebody…