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Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery performed mostly by and for white males

October 27, 2016

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…

Researchers Find Robotic Surgery is Reaching Largely Wealthy White Males

August 10, 2016

Press Releases

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Medical Society Will Feature this First of a Kind Study of Roughly 64,000 Patients at MIS Week NEW YORK – An analysis of robotic surgery case…

The Politics Of Hysterectomy

June 13, 2016

Opinion

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By Herbert A. Goldfarb, MD During the last thirty years hysterectomy has been performed in this country between 600 and 700 thousand times each year.…

Understanding The Pain Helps Heal the Patient

May 5, 2016

Editorial, MIS Week, SLS Board

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By: Maurice K. Chung Most know by now that the smaller incision, the less pain. Because pain is sometimes the primary issue, we must learn…

Wellbeing, Satisfaction and Productivity

May 3, 2016

MIS Week

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By: Daniel Kuhn, M.D. This article addresses what it takes to protect, rehabilitate, and enhance the career of surgeons from the point of view of wellbeing,…

A New ‘Minilaparoscopy’ May Emerge, Thanks to Better Instrumentation

December 9, 2015

Research, SLS in the News

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by Monica J. Smith New York—When minilaparoscopy debuted in the mid-1990s, it failed to gain ground largely due to limitations of the instruments, which lacked…