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Key factors predict gallbladder cancer on routine cholecystectomy
Identifying predictors allows surgeons to send high-risk individuals for oncologic evaluation beforehand and to prepare for intraoperative frozen...
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Physicians don’t feel safe with some patients: Here’s how to reduce the danger
Nearly 9 in 10 physicians reported that they had experienced one or more violent or potentially violent incidents in the past year.
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Expelled from high school, Alister Martin became a Harvard doc
It’s not often that a high school brawl with gang members sets you down a path to becoming a Harvard-trained doctor.
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Doctors are disappearing from emergency departments as hospitals look to cut costs
It took three trips to the ED on 3 consecutive days before a patient saw a doctor who looked at her blood work.
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Doctors and dating: There’s an app (or three) for that
Medical training can consume decades when others are exploring relationships and starting families.
From the Journals
Less invasive NSCLC surgery does not compromise survival
New results contrast with those from a previous study from 1995.
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Guidance for PCI without on-site surgical backup updated
Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions updated guidance for percutaneous coronary intervention in nonhospital, outpatient...
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What happened to surgical mitral valve repair in the MitraClip era?
It was just as prevalent but with better outcomes as transcatheter mitral valve repair emerged to take on high-risk cases. But more than just a...
From the Journals
Longer life after bariatric surgery, but suicide risk in young
Death from diabetes was 72% lower in the bariatric surgery patients versus nonsurgery peers.
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Renewed calls for fallopian tube removal to avoid ovarian cancer
There is increasing evidence that most high-grade serous ovarian cancers arise from cells in the fallopian tubes.
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Three wishes: The changes health professionals want
“I would wish for staged implementation of universal basic health coverage for all, perhaps closest to the French or Canadian model.”