While neurosurgeons perform brain surgery, they also provide the highest level of expertise in spine disorder treatment. The majority of operations performed by neurosurgeons are spine surgeries. Physicians who graduate from a neurosurgery program have usually assisted with hundreds of spine procedures.
By:Taylor M. Mamie Johnson was born in Ridgeway, South Carolina on September 27, 1932. She live with her grandma, Cedonia Belton, and her uncle who they called Bones. Her mother, Della Belton, lived in Washington, DC and her father was nowhere to be found. Gentry Harrison left her mother before Mamie was even born. Mamie at the age of twelve She went to school at Treethorn Elementary until the age of 12, when her grandmother died. She left behind her uncle and the big house that sat on 80 acres filled with fruit trees to go live with her aunt and uncle in Long Beach, New Jersey.
After graduating from high school in 1969, she attended Adelphi University, from which she received a BA, and then received a Mirrellees Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, which she attended in 1973 and 74, receiving an MA in creative writing. She currently lives in Boston.