surgery

So an orthopedic surgeon in my area was racking up about half as many operations in a day as his peers did in a month. http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20130721/NEWS01/307210064/Records-Spyros-Panos-averaged-surgeries-17-per-day According to the suit filed by some patients the...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35601282/ns/health-heart_health/ Did I miss something? The attached article makes this sound like it's not commonly used in North America. Any surgeons in the house? I had a stent placed in my left carotid about seven months ago. It's a relatively common...

In the waiting room of my doctor's surgery yesterday I spotted a bundle of leaflets for Namaste' [sic] The Shiatsu Centre in amongst the official NHS leaflets. Concerned that these Shiatsu leaflets might be sanctioned by my GP I mentioned them to him at the end of my check-up. Turns out none...

There are a few channels on my cable system that have surgery programs. Some are about cosmetic surgery and some about other kinds. It strikes me completely absurd that when they do a surgery where a breast is exposed they feel compelled to blur out the nipple. You are free to look into...

Does it really exist? In the Snopes site it is said that it didn't existed in Victorian times, and that most/all of the celebrities which are said to have done this surgery haven't done. But there's someone who seems to be real life's Nick Riviera if you search for that.... but the pictures in...

In todays Parade Magazine there is an article on acupuncture. Compared to what I expected it wasn't too bad, only mildly endorsing acupuncture and saying study is still gonig on. But there was a paragraph that makes me go "Hmmm." The author is Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld. The paragraph says: "My...

http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/07/14/hscout526845.html

The nightmare is visited upon an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 surgical patients each year. It happens when the patient, under general anesthesia "wakes up" right in the middle of the procedure. One quarter of them report feeling excruciating pain while being unable to cry out. "The sensation is...

BALAD, Iraq, May 19, 2004 — An 8-month-old Iraqi girl has a new lease on life thanks to U.S. officials on both sides of the Atlantic who cut through mounds of red tape to set up surgery to remove a large birth defect. Early May 18, Fatemah Hassan and her 21-year-old mother, Baday Amir...

There's a man who called today at work asking about Brigham's Women's Hospital in Massachusetts. The guy described a doctor who does a surgery procedure on the knees. According to rumor, the doctor takes out worn cartilage, and replaces it with cartilage that grows and replaces the worn...