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The problem is already affecting teaching hospitals, where there are typically not enough residents to help on all the cases. Many programs have resorted to hiring physician assistants (PAs) - they're like surgical residents who never graduate - to provide support when no residents are available to cover the cases. PAs...
If all else fails, you just have to operate without another doctor. This is especially true for middle-of-the-night and weekend emergencies. Common sense and unfortunate anecdotes tell us it is unquestionably less safe for the person on the table to have only one doctor present. But, not...
Led by Jim C. Hu, genitourinary surgeon at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the study assessed the long-term outcomes of radical prostatectomy, the procedure used to completely remove the prostate gland.
While Jerome P. Richie, the chief of urology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that the study was a good way to compare the two procedures, he critiqued the study’s use of Medicare patients because this limited the population to those over 65 while...
“I asked him one day, ‘Can you continue to take care of me now that I’m not a child anymore?’ and he replied, ‘I’ll take care of you until you�...