Bernard M Patten

Bernard M Patten built his career as an American neurologist, medical educator, and author whose writing draws on decades of clinical practice. Neurology Rounds with the Maverick gathers unusual and consequential patient encounters from a thirty-four-year medical career, using them to discuss diagnosis, uncertainty, error, and the human relationships behind neurological care. The book moves through settings that included the Neurological Institute of New York, the National Institutes of Health, and Baylor College of Medicine. Patten earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at Columbia, trained in neurology at Columbia-Presbyterian, and later served at Baylor, where he was associated with neuromuscular medicine and departmental leadership. Identity Publications issued the book in 2019. Its case-based structure makes professional history personal, placing clinical puzzles alongside Patten's reflections on changing medical institutions and bedside practice. The result belongs as much to medical memoir as to popular neurology, with patients and professional judgment at the center.