BOSTON – Patients who receive robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery (RALS), an increasingly widespread facet of surgical medicine, tend to be higher income white males, according to an extensive new study presented at Minimally Invasive Surgery Week. “We wanted to look at how the technology is rolling out … and what some of those characteristics are that […]
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Medical Society Will Feature this First of a Kind Study of Roughly 64,000 Patients at MIS Week NEW YORK – An analysis of robotic surgery case data from 2009 to 2014 on 63,725 patients found that the emergent surgery is reaching largely wealthy, white males, but in more areas of medicine. According to the study, minorities, women and […]
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The Politics Of Hysterectomy
By Herbert A. Goldfarb, MD During the last thirty years hysterectomy has been performed in this country between 600 and 700 thousand times each year. At least two thousand women die from the procedure each year. Can you believe that Hysterectomy has become the cure all procedure for women’s health problems? Hysterectomy is a major […]
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By: Maurice K. Chung Most know by now that the smaller incision, the less pain. Because pain is sometimes the primary issue, we must learn more about pain, including how to examine patients and choose the right procedure, in order to treat it effectively. Sometimes surgeries are successful; however, the patient may have other underlying organ conditions […]
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By: Daniel Kuhn, M.D. This article addresses what it takes to protect, rehabilitate, and enhance the career of surgeons from the point of view of wellbeing, satisfaction and productivity. Surgeons are challenged by the need to maintain a steady level of peak performance through long hours of surgery. Very often surgeons who were exposed to negative and traumatic […]