One of the nice things about editing Practical Neurology is that commissioning articles allows me to get answers to questions that have troubled me for years. Questions that maybe I have not dared to ask in public for fear of looking stupid. This issue is full of them. First up, which neurosurgeon to refer your patient to? Ask another neurosurgeon has been my usual approach, so I did, and Steve Haines from Minnesota provides some tips in his editorial (page 2). The neurological complications of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have confused me for years, and the treatment has always seemed to me …