We have the surgical and medical skills to improve lives but are woefully unprepared to save patients from their own self hatred. Often times we must surrender to the love of families, communities ...

1. Know what the risk factors are. Dr. Port says the most common risk factors for retained surgical items are more complex operations, operations requiring more than one surgical team, late night ...

Medical sponges and towels, instruments and other items are left inside bodies during surgeries more often than patients would imagine, up to 2,000 times a year in the United States by one estimate.

It is important, however, to obtain these data from a large, busy surgical ward. The battery of phages used is that recommended by the International Subcommittee on Staphylococcal Phage Typing.

Christopher Clarence Rupp, MD, is a surgeon at University of North Carolina Hospitals. He serves as the principal investigator of an ongoing multi-institution study examining the use of ...

A day at the 24-capacity inpatient Surgical Ward at William Beaumont Army Medical Center is action-packed with patients transported to and from appointments, plenty of visiting family members and ...

The Amway magnate Bill Nicholson and his wife, Sandi, tour Lenox Hill Hospital, to which they’ve loaned a trove of works by women artists (plus audio narrations by Katy Perry and Carol Burnett ...