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Surrender: Post-Neurosurgery Cognitive Change

Cognitive changes after brain surgery require neurologic assessment, work restrictions, and patient-safety review.

In Plain English

Cognitive changes after brain surgery require neurologic assessment, work restrictions, and patient-safety review.

What Happened in the Episode

Greene is back at work but mixes up pronouns after surgery.

Clinical Concept

Post-Neurosurgery Cognitive Change; Cognitive changes after brain surgery require neurologic assessment, work restrictions, and patient-safety review.

What ER Teams Would Evaluate

A real team would stabilize urgent problems, verify patient identity, review history and exposures, use targeted testing, involve specialists when needed, document decisions, and reassess when new risk appears.

Treatment and Management Overview

Management depends on cause, severity, capacity, consent, available resources, specialist input, and safe follow-up.

What TV Gets Right

The episode summary supports this as a concrete medical, safety, diagnostic, or care-pathway thread.

What TV Compresses

The summary does not support adding unshown vital signs, medication doses, test values, exact procedure timing, consent dialogue, or outcomes.

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