Educational opportunities for students are at the heart of the quest to solve this misunderstood public health crisis. BY CAMRAN NEZHAT, MD, AND BARBARA PAGE For decades, our group has been working to increase awareness around endometriosis as not just a reproductive tract disease, but a whole-body disease that can affect all organs. Endometriosis continues […]
By Joanie Cox-Henry Imagine having endometriosis excision surgery and needing no downtime. That’s the reality for Dr. Mona Orady’s patients. The San Francisco-based OB-GYN specializes in mini-laparoscopy. Instead of using instruments with a circumference of 5 to 12 millimeters, she uses 2 to 3-millimeter tools to excise endo. For many women who undergo traditional laparoscopic […]
By Mona Orady, M.D. There is still much to learn about the benefits and potential of robotic surgery. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. –Vincent Van Gogh We are still forming opinions about robotic surgery. Although the existence and progression of robotic surgery is undeniable, the question of a […]
Please R.S.V.P. to: Sarah Sherwood, (650) 380-9102 or sarah@sherwoodcommunications.com MEDICAL SOCIETY TO DISCUSS MOLECULAR ENERGY’S ROLE IN FUTURE GYN TECHNOLOGY MISWEEK ’17 Panel to Include Dr. Andrew Brill from California Pacific Medical Center Using energy to operate is the future of Surgical Gynecology. The idea is becoming more popular and more clinically relevant. This session […]
Lovers to Spouses with Dr. Liselotte Mettler and Elwin Wallace Law BOOK SIGNING: Co-Inventor of Minimally Invasive Surgery Dual Memoir of Well-Known Surgeon and Her Husband Please R.S.V.P. to: Sarah Sherwood, (650) 380-9102 or sarah@sherwoodcommunications.com WHO: The Authors: Dr. Liselotte Mettler, co-inventor of minimally invasive surgery and California Real Estate expert Elwin Wallace Law Hosted […]
Panel to Discuss Energy Devices and Potential for Incision-Free Surgery By Monica J. Smith Energy-driven technology is a cornerstone of surgery. Although surgeons use the devices at their disposal skillfully, for the most part, many do not know exactly how they work. A better understanding of the technology, experts say, could help surgeons make the […]
DOT MED Healthcare Business News By Dr. Raymond Lanzafame and Dr. Richard Satava It is surprising to see how the understanding of certain aspects of energy medicine are not stressed during traditional medical training, given their importance in daily operations and in the surgery of the future. In fact, our identity as surgeons […]
Medical Society Presents Florida Hospital Research at MIS Week 2017 Tampa, FL – July 10, 2017/Press Release/ – A Florida Hospital Tampa study is attempting to show surgeons how to grade what they see during surgery in order to increase patient safety and create a systematic standard for how surgeon’s outcomes should be studied. The research […]
Medical Society Presents UCSF Research Showing Two Distinct Skills Need to Be Learned Simultaneously San Francisco – July 3, 2017/Press Release/ – A UCSF study intended to measure how best to integrate residents into complex robotic technology resulted in an additional finding and necessary distinction: teaching robotics requires distinguishing between learning surgical skills and learning a surgical tool, […]
By Sarah Sherwood, publicist In Dr. Kaci Durbin’s excellent article today for KevinMD.com entitled Doctors: You Have a PR Problem, she describes the response to the negative portrayal and assumptions of physicians as near silent amidst the firestorm of criticism. Indeed, the public perception of physicians has been on the decline, while they are being framed as […]
