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The Latest Guidelines for COVID-19 Safety: What You Need to Know Before Your Procedure

… remain up to date with the latest recommendations from the New York State Department of Health. If you have any … or have viral respiratory symptoms Please seek guidance from support staff or at nursing stations if you have any … testing is not required for patients who have recovered from COVID-19 within the previous 3 months. (Please discuss …

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What You Need to Know About Pancreatic Enzymes

… and the amount of enzymes they contain may differ from what is advertised. If you need to take pancreatic … pancreatic enzymes to digest your food and could benefit from taking pancreatic enzymes. How many should I be taking? … pH level may be too acidic, which prevents the enzymes from working properly. Another possibility is the dose you …

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Emile Bacha, MD, Appointed Chair of Surgery

… MD , who announced earlier this year he’d be stepping down from the role after an exceptional 15-year tenure as chair. … safer and less invasive, and he has received support from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart … Cardiovascular Surgery and received the Education Award from the Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and …

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The Scenic Route, with Dr. Raza

… Nazli, I was married to a woman who had two children from before. So I have those two stepchildren, then these two stepdaughters from my wife, and our two kids. He pauses and smiles wide. “I … book that sparked my interest in the history of medicine from that era."  "Alex listened to me talk for some time, and …

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Stone Hearts — Chapter 5: Donor Flight

… What happens when a surgeon turns his eye from the operating room to crime fiction? In "Stone Hearts", … the go-bag and the well-scuffed Coleman picnic cooler from Kmart into the back of the Denomination’s Organ … seen it hundreds of times, the swirl of roads leading west from the busiest bridge in the world still impressed Elias. …

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Stone Hearts — Chapter Seven: Take Three

… What happens when a surgeon turns his eye from the operating room to crime fiction? In "Stone Hearts", … fresh page. “All good, folks?” She noticed that the light from the west-facing windows was sliding an interesting new … The announcer starts yelling at people to ‘move away from the towers!’ A bunch of the hippies around us are …

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History of Medicine: The Small & Mighty Parathyroids

… From Water to Land In order to understand the parathyroid … theory holds that these new land vertebrates had descended from a line of fish that had air-sacs connected to the back … In addition to the need to breathe air, the transition from sea to land also required the first land animals to …

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John Ritter’s Life-Saving Rules

… Aorta is essentially a hollow tube that carries blood away from the heart.  The walls of that tube are made up of three … Just like a rip in fabric, a tear in the aorta comes from underlying weakness.  That weakness may be there from the start, it may develop gradually over time, or it can …

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Endovenous Ablation

… procedure, endovenous ablation, which seals the veins shut from within the vessel. The Director of the Vascular Surgery … stick is required. The treatment seals the veins shut from within, eliminating the source of the varicose problems. …

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Kenneth Autencio MA, RN, CWOCN

… Continence Certification in 2016. His experience ranges from long term care, outpatient wound care, and acute wound … He finds it fulfilling to see the progress of a patient from meeting for preop surgery education to postop recovery. …

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Is Your Standing Desk Causing Varicose Veins? 7 Myths About Irregular Veins

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Story of Hope: Metastatic Melanoma

… associated with IL-2 therapy, Stan offers encouragement from his experience for others facing metastatic melanoma. …

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Stories of Hope: Alexander Vasquez

… “I love Lawrence Hospital – I love everything about it, from the parking attendants to the security guard to all the …

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Pediatric Surgery Fellowship

… surrounding the main Columbia Campus. Our properties span from West 164th Street to West 170th Street and are located …

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Guide to Mitral Valve Repair & Replacement

… next step should be to get an evaluation or second opinion from a cardiac surgeon. Our surgeons can help you decide if a …

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