# Harvey Cushing (@harvey-cushing)

Harvey Cushing was a American surgeon. Cushing developed operative, anesthetic and monitoring practices that reduced mortality in brain surgery and helped establish neurosurgery as a specialty.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Harvey Cushing's public record._

## Topics

- [Records and Teams](/@harvey-cushing/records-and-teams.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Building Neurosurgery](/@harvey-cushing/building-neurosurgery.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Pituitary Disease](/@harvey-cushing/pituitary-disease.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://library.medicine.yale.edu/cushingcenter/harvey-cushing
- blog: https://medicalarchives.jhmi.edu/cushing/
- blog: https://www.aans.org/about-us/history/neurosurgical-leaders/harvey-cushing/

## Ask this twin

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```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "harvey-cushing", "question": "…"}`.