By Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD (as interviewed by Sarah Sherwood, M.A.) SS: Thanks for agreeing to this interview, Dr. Jason. To begin, are there some generalities you want to share with us? What aspects of communication are important for having a clinical practice that achieves high standards? HJ: Thanks, Sarah. Please call me Hill. Since […]
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By Joan Zallee, Retired Business Manager, RN When you open up your letter from the insurance company, the column “Amount Paid” can be downright stressful. How do you navigate the business of the wonderful insurance companies so that the number in this column is larger and paid more quickly? That is what this article is […]
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Miami, FL – The Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons (SLS) will now provide both its 6,000 members and non-members with specific tools to help them solve the most pervasive business problems that have been shown to complicate practicing medicine. Studies increasingly show that doctors are suffering greater burnout and less job satisfaction. A Mayo Clinic study […]
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A Summary of the Good, the Bad and the Useless in Social Media for Surgeons by Sarah Sherwood, Publicist Social media can be a powerful tool for surgeons: it can provide medical information to patients and help you connect. It can also deliver the kind of visibility that helps with career advancement, third party relationships […]
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The Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons (SLS) will now provide its members who have Apple or Android technology with its journal research in minimally invasive surgery via a new tool called JSLS Anywhere. Smartphones have been shown to offer significant benefits for health care providers in terms of improved communication and ready access to guidelines and […]
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Practice makes perfect, right? But what happens when the stakes could be life and death and there hasn’t been a lot of practice? There are some surgeries and procedures that are so rare and complex most pediatric surgeons’ skills get rusty. Now, med schools around the country are turning to HiDef technology to help surgeons […]
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The Launch of “JSLS Anywhere” will Affect Its 5,000 Members Worldwide Miami, FL (November 14, 2016)–The Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons (SLS) will now provide its members who have Apple or Android technology with its journal research in minimally invasive surgery via a new app called JSLS Anywhere. Smartphones have been shown to offer significant benefits […]
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By Christina Frangou Michael Kavic, MD, a hernia surgeon and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Society of Laparoscopic Surgeons, is calling on practicing surgeons, surgical educators and medical device manufacturers to re-evaluate their approach to inguinal hernia repair, recommending less reliance on synthetic mesh repair as the go-to method for repairing inguinal hernias. In […]
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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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By Yan Mei Goh With the advent of the obesity endemic, surgeons would more frequently encounter obese patients and its challenges when performing a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Some guidelines suggest that obesity alone is not an indication for conversion to open cholecystectomy. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the morbidly obese patient pose different difficulties at each stage of […]