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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A relatively new technique to repair hips got a cautious reception at an annual meeting of U.S. orthopedic surgeons on Wednesday, with many doctors skeptical that the technology is ready for widespread use.
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Doctors say patients timid about having surgeries for fear of pain shouldn't put it off: A new focus on patient comfort and advances in pain management are making many procedures nearly pain-free.
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Adiences of an exhibition are being invited to see what they would look like if they had cosmetic surgery.
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Â· Breakthrough could be used in remote surgeryÂ· Virtual reality games may also be improved
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Patients worried that surgeons may mistakenly operate on the wrong limb or organ can put away the pens and markers. A new device approved for sale yesterday by the Food and Drug
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Oncologists do not usually need bodyguards when they present scientific data at a medical symposium.
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Coping at a hospital when the doctor is in, but the interpreter is out.
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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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Surgeons may soon be able to practise tricky operations using a virtual scalpel on a virtual body, thanks to new 3D imaging.
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Under the lights of his operating room at New York Presbyterian Hospital, heart surgeon Dr. Craig Smith looks like a futurist, using high-tech robotic techniques on elderly
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An old ulcer operation is getting new attention as a possible alternative obesity surgery: a quick snip of a nerve that helps control hunger.
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While some physicians pride themselves on their business acumen, few are as unabashedly entrepreneurial as David Louis Matlock, the board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist regarded as the driving force behind vaginal cosmetic surgery.
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Sometimes it's tough for patients to tell the whole story.
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A doctor takes a risk and goes against a patient's wishes in order to save his life.
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French surgeons took out a patient's gallbladder without cutting her abdomen, removing it through an incision in her vagina in what they said was a glimpse of the future of surgery, they reported on Monday.
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A new website is being launched in an attempt to strengthen patient choice.