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Over the past year, U.S. doctors have made strides in the use of a technique called "natural orifice" surgery, an approach they hope will do away with the scarring, pain and the long recoveries associated with some traditional operations.
That is the kind of sentiment that proponents of the technique are hoping for. Using patients' natural openings (the mouth, vagina or rectum) as entry points to the body is perhaps the intuitive next step to laparoscopic surgery - which, while significantly less invasive than open surgery, still requires several tiny...
The expectation is that patients will cope better after the operation with the less-invasive new techniques - no external scarring, less pain (most of Horgan's patients take nothing stronger than Tylenol after surgery), shorter recoveries and no risk of hernia. Surgeons have created a national organization called the Natural...
Instead of rolling all our problems into one big war, in which rape and coal-mining are equivalent, those in favor of change would be (and often are) better served by careful parsing of the distinctions, by working through the possibility of unintended consequences before acting, and by drawing connections...
White rectangular beams line the walls of a married couple’s farmhouse in the Adams House Drama Society’s production of Harold Pinter’s “Old Times.” These white beams seem more and more like the bars of a...