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Expectant parents, spare a thought for Mrs. Jacob Nufer, who in 1500 found herself in agonizing labor. More than a dozen midwives of the Swiss town where she lived had tended to her for days, with no sign of the baby. Facing the likelihood of losing mother and child, and...
We depend utterly on healing - unexplainable, amazing, taken-for-granted automatic mending of cut skin - for any and every success we can possibly have with any surgery. We rely on it much as a farmer depends on his hard, dry seeds to turn into green plants, but our need is...
TV medical shows can be pretty goofy, especially when you're a surgeon. Always amusing, to us anyway, is the great drama of the skin incision. This much you should know about real surgery: The skin incision is the easiest part. Human skin cuts about like a pork chop (or...
The growth in shoulder surgery and rehabilitation has been remarkable and, as you would imagine, quite profitable for the medical industry. I have been doing my repairs arthroscopically for about seven years and I hope I never have to go back to the old way. The only reason for this...
When antibiotics were introduced in the 1940s, infections caused by staph were easily fought. By the 1950s, however, the bacteria had developed defense mechanisms to antibiotics and today they are increasingly resistant. Until recently, these resistant bacteria were found exclusively in the hospital environment, but they have spread to the...