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Video peer review offers objective rating of surgical technique; wide variation seen for sleeve gastrectomy.

In December 2020, after years of heated debate and mounting anxiety from patients, Congress passed legislation to ban surprise medical bills.

DCIS biological risk signature predicts recurrence, radiation benefit.

In the 19th century, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was ridiculed for his claim that handwashing reduced the spread of infections.

43% of individuals with 3 or more C. diff recurrences experienced sepsis and more than 10% required colorectal surgery.

If I had been her physician and not her physician brother, I wonder if I would have made the same decision. The decision-making process becomes unclear when the patient is one of your own. - Amitabha Ghosh Roy, MD.

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Public Perceptions: The role of residents in operations.

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After weeks of decline, the U.S. is beginning to see another uptick in COVID-19 cases. Individual acts could help reverse this course.

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The Neptune surgical suction system and the Bair Hugger forced-air warming device are possible sources of airborne microbial contamination in the OR.