While patients may never see the person who hands instruments to the surgeon or sets up sterile equipment, the surgical technologist plays a critical role in keeping the surgery safe and effective.
Before the sun is up, Virendra Patel, MD, MPH, is already moving: one snooze, coffee, a memorized aorta, and the right playlist for whatever the day requires.
In The Conscience of Care, Dov Fox takes on the moral and legal collisions surrounding conscience in medicine, and Dr. Craig Smith follows him into the discomfort with admiration, impatience, and a sharp eye for what gets healed and what remains exposed.
More than 30 doctors from Columbia's Department of Surgery have been named as 2026 Super Doctors, according to this year’s Super Doctors listings published with the New York Times Magazine.
The hundredth robotic living liver case makes Columbia the first program in the country to reach this milestone, though inside the team, the number lands more as a measure of what has changed than what has been achieved.
Before she ever made a film about it, Rachel Ross spent years living inside a body she had been taught not to trust while suffering from undiagnosed ulcerative colitis.
