A Surgeon Opens Up, and Not With a Scalpel
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Dr. Thomas R. Russell, the executive director of the American College of Surgeons, discusses medical innovation, the health care crisis and more.
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NEW YORK  - Physicians frequently disclose information about themselves to patients, new research shows, and contrary to what some researchers believe, this does not enhance the doctor-patient relationship and may actually be disruptive.
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One operation went awry after an experienced brain surgeon insisted to a nurse he knew what side of the head to operate on Â but got it wrong.
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DEARBORN, Mich. - Doctors at Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center can make the rounds without getting out of their chair or even leaving their house, thanks to a roaming robot called Rosie.
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Dr. Michael R. Treat is hard at work on an invention he hopes will change the way surgeons work in the operating room - an automated helping hand.
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A hand-held probe could cut the number of patients who develop infections following operations.
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Scientists perform a surgical operation on a living cell, using a needle just a few billionths of a metre wide.
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Most doctors don't talk about breast reconstruction with women before cancer surgery, depriving them of key information that can sway their decision about whether to have the whole breast or just a lump removed, new research suggests.
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The reason an athlete visits an orthopedic surgeon as opposed to a faith healer should be evident: You can't always count on divine intervention.
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NEW YORK  - Cardiac surgeons at the  University of Chicago have developed a technique for treating a  severe congenital heart malformation that is less invasive than  open heart surgery.
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NEW YORK  - Heart surgery is a frightening  prospect for many people, but now imagine undergoing the  operation completely awake! That's what seven patients treated  at a hospital in Turkey went though -- in a planned, deliberate  study.
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If the government gets its way, more than a million patients will be operated on by surgeons from the private rather than public health sector.
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A hospital group is supporting a patient whose insurer wouldn't cover her surgeon who was working in a hospital covered by the company, but outside the network.
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Dentists develop a safer alternative sedation procedure to potentially risky general anaesthetic.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Patients at risk for undergoing surgery now have a successful option to open clogged arteries. A study reported in this weekâs The New England Journal of Medicine finds a less-invasive
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The electronics specialist knows how to set itself apart.
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A surgical robot developed by UK scientists makes hip operations so simple even students get good results.