Shunsuke Hatakenaka, M.D.
A neurosurgeon practicing at an acute-care general hospital in Osaka, Japan — every consultation is with me, personally.
as operator and assistant*
catheter procedures*
two as first author
U.S. licensing exams
*Combined experience as operator and assistant.
Medicine depends on where you are. My grandfather’s stroke taught me that.
My grandfather had a stroke in a rural Japanese town. The care available there was not the care he would have received in a city. Medicine changes with geography — I learned that as his family, and it is why I became a neurosurgeon.
And I trained in Japan — I am genuinely proud of Japanese neurosurgery: the tenth-of-a-millimeter precision under the microscope, the experience behind moyamoya disease and bypass surgery, the system that carries a patient through to rehabilitation. I want this care to be among your options too.
“Is this really the only way? Would another country treat this differently?” — this hour is for thinking that question through, together: what Japan typically offers for situations like yours. So that where you live no longer limits what you can consider.
The conditions he writes about
Plain, sourced explanations of how each condition is typically thought through in Japan — written by the surgeon you’d be talking to, not a content team.
Talk it through with a neurosurgeon in Japan.
One hour, one‑on‑one video with the surgeon on this page. Nothing is due when you send your request.
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