With budding interests in surgery and global health following my first year of medical school, I set out to study abroad in my familial ancestral home of Magyarország (Hungary). There, I stayed in the country’s southern region in a city called Szeged, which is home to the University of Szeged and one of the largest neurosurgical units in Eastern Europe, the Idegsebészeti Klinika. Over the six weeks I spent observing at the clinic, I studied under neurosurgical residents and attendings, who shared with me the many intricacies of spine and neurovascular surgery, two of my favorite topics in medicine. I also had the unique opportunity to bear first-hand witness to the Hungarian health care system. This Discovery Day, I hope to share my fruitful experience studying neurosurgery abroad and discuss the Hungarian health care system and if and what we, as American medical professionals, can learn from this small country in Eastern Europe.