Peter Drier, a bank technology manager in New York City, was blindsided after neck surgery by a $117,000 bill from a doctor he did not recall meeting. Credit Joshua Bright for The New York Times.
Cushing's triad, which includes bradycardia, hypertension (with widened pulse pressure), and a change in respiratory pattern, is seen in head injuries with increased intracranial pressure (ICP).
Cushing's syndrome Cushing's syndrome - a disease where too much cortisol is being made is named after Harvey Cushing, a famous neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital who first described it. Patients who have Cushing's syndrome have too much cortisol Cortisol - a glucocorticoid that controls glucose production and suppresses the immune system or steroid in their blood.