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Thyroid Awareness Month, 2022: What’s New? It’s Personal.
… the growing importance of personalized medicine January is Thyroid Awareness Month, and this year, 2022, … H. Kuo and Dr. Katie McManus discussed some of the most important topics in thyroid surgery and thyroid … in our series. And patients love it. I would say for the most part, their biggest driver, what they're happiest about …
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State of the Union: Pediatric Heart Surgery Today
… main things that are important and new. The first one is partial heart transplant or valve transplant. The second … So, multiple advantages! Do you use virtual surgery for most procedures or just the most complex? I would say only complex because it takes …
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Weight Loss Surgery for Teens: Part Two
… this link: Weight Loss Surgery for Teens: Part One . What is the minimum age requirement for bariatric surgery? Do you think this is going to change in the near future? Dr. Zitsman – A number … available operations. However, it is probably the one that most depends on the individual changing his or her eating …
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Emile Bacha, MD, Appointed Chair of Surgery
… at the NewYork-Presbyterian Congenital Heart Center . He is also an adjunct professor of cardiothoracic surgery at … expanding therapies and improving outcomes for some of the most complex cardiac conditions. He has performed over 8,000 … articles and book chapters. His research mission is to make pediatric cardiac surgery safer and less invasive, …
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On What Makes A Good Surgeon: Insight from Surgeon and Mentor Dr. James Church
… became about reflection and mentorship. For him, there is still work to do. “Wisdom is knowledge plus experience, and that’s my role now,” says … can lead you to do things a little differently, too. “Most surgical textbooks are full of evidence-based medicine, …
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Advancing Breast Cancer Treatment: Dr. Roshni Rao on the Latest Breakthroughs from the I-SPY Trial
… Therapeutic Response with Imaging and Molecular Analysis) is a collaborative multi-institutional study that aims to … interview, Dr. Rao delves a little deeper into the most recent findings, including minimizing lymph node … clipped node during surgery. What's important about this is the idea of de-escalating axillary surgery—basically, …
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The Latest Guidelines for COVID-19 Safety: What You Need to Know Before Your Procedure
… common areas and many patient care areas of the hospital. Most of our front desk staff remain masked. Masks are … do not require hospital admission, pre-procedure testing is no longer required for asymptomatic patients. Pre-procedure testing is still required for same-day admission patients. For …
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State of the Union: Liver Transplantation Today
… preservation since we last spoke? The biggest difference is in how people donate an organ, and that applies to any … has increased a lot. The decision for end-of-life care is made much earlier and is becoming more and more publicly … the Spanish-speaking program and are doing every part, most importantly, evaluation, in Spanish. We’re mimicking …
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A Look at Organ Donation and the People Who Make It Possible
… Organ donation, simply put, is the act of offering someone a second chance at life. … scenarios: Donation After Brain Death (DBD) This is the most common type of deceased organ donation. It involves … transplantation. While still a niche practice at the most advanced centers, types of DCD donation are evolving …
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Book Review with Dr. Craig Smith — The Conscience of Care: Navigating Health in the Culture Wars
… to justify providing or opposing medical care. And what is conscience? Among many definitions, consider the one provided by Dictionary.com : “…the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one’s … or wrong; for including both conduct and motives; but most importantly for concise emphasis on the link to action—” …
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Frankenstein and the Electricity of the Heart
… In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , lightning is a metaphor. In the film adaptations, it’s famously also a direct mechanism. It is the flash that splits the sky, the force that animates the … timed signals disrupt the rhythm and threaten the body’s most essential function: circulation. Atrial fibrillation , …
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Understanding BMI and BRI: A Q&A with Columbia’s Bariatric NP Gio Dugay
… Body Mass Index (BMI) is a widely used tool in healthcare, but how useful is it really? With new discussions about alternative measures … that can be used to assess weight-related health risks. Most insurance companies still use it to determine …
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History of Medicine: The Woman Behind the BRCA Gene
… of Mary-Claire King, PhD, from a 2014 interview with Time.com. Fortunately for the thousands of people her work has … that put us at a greater risk for certain cancers--most notably breast and (for women) ovarian cancers. It was … And the reason we know about BRCA in the first place is due to the revolutionary work of Mary-Claire King. Today, …
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Students & Professionals
… Medical Students The Major Clinical Year Surgery Clerkship is often the first opportunity for medical students to fully … Learn all the essential information you’ll need to get the most from your surgery rotation experience. Medical Student … What a Year of Care Looked Like At first glance, this is a year told in numbers. But behind every data point is a …
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