===== 🧩 Useful =====

**Useful** refers to knowledge, tools, or actions that produce meaningful improvement in real contexts — especially in patient care, clinical reasoning, or surgical decision-making.

In **Neurosurgery Wiki**, we use “useful” not in the abstract sense of “interesting” or “publishable,” but in the concrete sense of:

> *“Would this help someone operate better, decide more wisely, or avoid a mistake?”*

==== 🧠 What makes something truly useful? ====

  * It changes how you see a case or a decision  
  * It can be applied directly in clinical practice  
  * It saves time, prevents harm, or sharpens judgment  
  * It teaches something that stays with you — not just fills a page

==== 🚫 What is *not* useful? ====

  * Data that hides behind jargon or statistics  
  * Content designed to impress rather than inform  
  * Redundant, vague, or prestige-driven publications  
  * Anything that adds noise, not clarity

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> **“Useful” is the highest compliment a piece of clinical knowledge can earn.**