Word: incisional
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Bernard N'donazi has the gentle manner of a country doctor, but his mildness conceals fierce commitment to a mission that began to take shape 28 years ago, following the destruction of one of his tribe's central institutions. As a boy, N'donazi endured an initiation rite of the...
Alas, some of the secrets of the male house remain lost. During his initiation, N'donazi recalls, he was given a plant to chew that numbed the pain of the incision. He wistfully notes that he has not since been able to find that natural anesthetic.
Still, physicians are concerned that women who have had a vertical uterine incision, which is now used in less than 1% of all caesareans, risk tearing along the scar. Their advice: better to have another C-section. But the vast majority of those who have undergone C-sections have had...
A new back operation, performed through a tiny incision, allows disk patients to go home with little pain and no stitches.
The procedure usually takes less than an hour and requires no stitches. Patients walk out of the hospital with only a Band-Aid over the incision. Recalls Sheila Aronoff, who had the surgery at Allegheny General last year: "I could feel the pain start to leave while I was in...