Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD

Neurosurgeon mentioned in Waiting for the Monsoon as Rod Nordland’s brain surgeon.

Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD is described in Waiting for the Monsoon as Rod Nordland’s brain surgeon at Weill Cornell Medicine. In the memoir he performs the resection of Nordland’s glioblastoma and speaks bluntly with him about the disease and treatment journey.