Madjid Samii: a life in the service of neurosurgery; a life in the service of mankind.

摘要

Born in Iran, his Persian roots and his religion led Madjid toward excellence, precision, commitment, honesty, and love for the patient, guiding him to pursue medicine and the sciences of life. He left for Germany, a country whose medicine (neurosurgery) he would radically reshape forever. He learned neurosurgery "the hard way" from Emeritus Professor Dr. Med. Kurt Schurmann, the chief of Neurosurgery in Mainz, proving that the Cushing family motto "Through Valor and Divine Aid" is one that should apply to every neurosurgeon in the world. His hard work and strenuous efforts toward continuous self-improvement and development for the benefit of the patient did not go unnoticed, and the German Government decorated him with the German Merit Cross, First Class, as a token of appreciation.