Archive for the ‘Surgery’ Category
Monday, September 1st, 2008
A registry for artificial joints is much like any system that can compare performance of competing cars or appliances, but in this case it involves appliances going into the human body.
A patient - identified by a number - is entered into a database along with information about the device he ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Six weeks ago, E.K, a 72 year old divorce attorney underwent an uncomplicated total hip replacement at the Neurologic & Orthopedic Hospital of Chicago. Prior to surgery, he had undergone a medical evaluation and no reason was advanced by his internist after comprehensive medical testing as to why the patient ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Our observations unveil the reasons why people may initially choose to delay but ultimately undergo total knee replacement surgery, underscoring the need for better patient education before and after surgery. Many patients have to work through a four-stage process of accepting the fact that they have knee pain and/or disability ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
We left Beijing and the fabulous Olympic Village yesterday morning and flew two hours south to a city of seven million lying on the east China Sea , Wenzhou. It is a Jingjang city beyond belief as an industrial power in a state of modernization with a mixture of the ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Two recent events got me thinking. The first was the news of Senator Kennedy’s diagnosis of brain tumor and its early treatment. Of course, the pundits already have him dead and buried, while the academic institutions vie for the opportunity to serve him…and themselves. The second was the CINN Foundation ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Yesterday I gave 80 hours of instructional lectures to several hundred orthopedic surgeons at the Jui Shui Tan second annual orthopedic meeting. I would show a powerpoint slide and make my statements while the Chinese interpreter repeated in Chinese. While we call it Chinese it is mandarin. All Chinese are ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Senator Ted Kennedy’s shocking news gives us all pause. Even though I deal with news like his on a daily basis, the enormity of the national response has caused me to reflect on the less appreciated facts of his case. While glioblastoma (GBM) carries a terrible statistical prognosis, especially in ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
The last thing a surgeon wants to hear is, that he needs surgery, especially major surgery requiring general anesthesia, hospitalization, recovery, and rehabilitation. The controller becomes the controlled, without respect for reputation, skills, power or wealth.
The first step, after the awful realization and acceptance is to regain as much control ...
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