Difference Between Scrub Nurse & Circulating Nurse
Scrub nurses and circulating nurses are involved with the medical care of patients during operations. The nature of their duties differs, however. Read on to learn more about how these…
Severe allergic reactions in surgery ’caused by antibiotics’
Antibiotics are the main cause of life-threatening allergic reactions during surgery, a new report suggests. The Royal College of Anaesthetists says more patients are claiming to be allergic to penicillin,…
Doctor battered by ex-patient’s son after he burst into surgery saying she ‘failed to diagnose late dad’s motor neurone disease’
Dr Victoria Hunter was treating a patient when Steven Cook, 41, barged in By Rob Pattinson A SON who believed his late dad was misdiagnosed burst into a surgery and…
NHS surgeon hid his HIV status sparking nationwide alert
By Steve Bird An NHS surgeon who kept his HIV infection secret because he feared he would be stigmatised triggered a nationwide search for people he may have contaminated, a…
‘Black box’ recorder tracks surgical skills in the operating room
Keck Medicine of USC researchers develop a tool that separates the novice from the knowledgeable By Erica Rheinschild Has your doctor mastered the latest minimally invasive technology for surgery? To…
Dimpleplasty: Increasing Number of Millenials Having Cosmetic Surgery to Create Dimples
But it’ll cost you a pretty penny. By Rachel Hosie If you thought stick-on freckles were bad enough, brace yourself: the latest way people are changing their natural facial features…
My Jail Is Safer than Your ER
—Surprised? Don’t be By Jeffrey E. Keller, MD How safe is correctional medicine? People naturally assume that working in a jail or prison is dangerous. “Aren’t you nervous about working…
She dreamed of getting plastic surgery in Miami. Three days later, she was dead.
BY SARAH BLASKEY, SONIA OSORIO AND DANIEL CHANG For Adianet Galván Gonzáles and her circle of family and friends, the popular surgical procedure known as a Brazilian butt lift was…
I’m a surgeon who operated on a man who had just committed a horrific murder — here’s how I control my emotions during surgery
By Paul A. Ruggieri In his book, surgeon Paul A. Ruggieri recounts an occasion in which he was called into surgery to urgently operate on a man who had just…
Ergonomic and Proper Handling of Surgical Instruments
By Szczepan Baran, VMD, Elizabeth Johnson, VMD and Marcel Perret-Gentil, DVM Although not always recognized, proper handling of surgical instruments plays a vital role in positive surgical patient outcomes. Correct…
10 Signs the Hospital Wants to Discharge You Too Early—and How to Fight It
Everyone wants to get you home safe and keep you healthy, but sometimes going home is a bad option.It’s in the medical team’s best interest to discharge you when you’re…
World’s First Head Transplant Volunteer Could Experience Something “Worse Than Death”
“I would not wish this on anyone,” says top surgeon. In April, 2015, 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, announced that he will become the subject of the first human head…
Shock as Queen admitted to hospital for surgery
THE Queen has undergone an operation on her eye at hospital, it has been revealed. Her Maj has had eye surgery to remove a cataract, Buckingham Palace confirmed this afternoon.…
How Profiteers Coax Women Into Often-Unneeded Surgery
By Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg Jerri Plummer was at home in Arkansas, watching television with her three children, when a stranger called to warn that her life was in…
A Military Surgeon in Waiting
By Steve Sternberg Army surgeon Maj. Monique Hassan’s life was an adventure. All that was missing was the surgery. MAJ. MONIQUE HASSAN’S stint as an Army surgeon was a halting…
An Operating Room Nurse Confirms That Yes, Many Surgeons Are Assholes
“Once I had a surgeon throw a suture needle at me because I set it up for a righty, and it turned out he was a lefty.” I’m an operating…
Woman Born Without A Vagina Has Been Given One Using Tilapia Fish Skin ( Neovaginoplasty)
A Brazilian woman born without a vagina has been the first in the world to receive a life-changing constructive treatment involving the skin of tilapia fish. Student Jucilene Marinho, 23,…
Georgia Surgeon Accused of Dancing with Twerking Nurses During Operations
A plastic surgeon in Georgia is now being put under a microscope after allegedly putting patients under the knife with music blaring … and her body groovin’. Give Boutte THE…
All Children’s Hospital never told state about surgical needle left in baby
By Kathleen McGrory, Neil Bedi Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital broke Florida law by failing to tell regulators about two serious medical errors, according to a state report. The report,…
The significance of infection prevention in an operating room
Dr. Rick Cunningham Both patients and surgeons worry about infections occurring after surgery. Fortunately, the risk of infection following orthopedic surgery performed in the Vail Valley is about 0.3 percent.…
The VA Hospital In L.A. Has Cancelled 83 Surgeries Due To A Fly Infestation In Operating Rooms
By Jared Sichel The Department of Veteran Affairs isn’t just in need of more doctors, nurses, and medical personnel. Someone over there needs to call an exterminator — right now.…
Gynecological mesh: The medical device that has 100,000 women suing
A common surgical implant has generated the largest multi-district litigation since asbestos. 60 Minutes reports on one of the device’s manufacturers, Boston Scientific, now facing 48,000 lawsuits. By Scott Pelley…
How Profiteers Coax Women Into Often-Unneeded Surgery
By Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg Jerri Plummer was at home in Arkansas, watching television with her three children, when a stranger called to warn that her life was in…
Why I Became an Anaesthesiologist
By Alex Macario, MD, MBA To understand how I ended up an anesthesiologist, you have to first understand how I ended up a physician. My dad is a doctor and…
I’m your anaesthesiologist, let me explain what that means
By Sasha K. Shillcutt, MD It’s still dark out when I walk into the busy and bustling preoperative area where patients and their family members crowd into small bays. They…
G-spot surgery given to three women to boost sexual pleasure
By Helen Thomson Three women have received a surgery intended to improve G-spot sensitivity and increase sexual satisfaction. The procedure tightens tissue in the vaginal wall around the so-called G…
Connecticut Woman’s Rare 132-Pound Tumour Removed In Lifesaving Surgery
By Nicholas Rondinone If surgeons had waited any longer, a Connecticut woman’s 132-pound tumour would have killed her. But the doctors involved said the surgery earlier this year at Danbury…
Groundbreaking robotic spinal surgery for chordoma tumour removal
By Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Noah Pernikoff is back to his life in New York City after becoming the first patient in the world to…
The World’s Top Hospitals Have Been Enabling Quack Medicine
By Paul A. Offit From the Cleveland Clinic to top university hospitals such as Harvard, an eagerness to cash in on the alternative medicine bonanza has encouraged the rejection of…
Surgeon mistakes ovary, Fallopian tube for appendix, says poor vision responsible!
A senior surgeon with “poor vision” accidentally removed a woman’s ovary instead of her appendix and then told bosses it was a “trifling error.” The United Kingdom resident doctor of…