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Surgeons Urge Action in Face of Proposed Health Care Reforms
Does Obama’s Health Care Plan Threaten Surgeon Autonomy?
ISSUE: JUNE, 2009
Surgeons must speed up efforts to scrutinize themselves or risk losing professional autonomy in a wave of coming health care reforms, warned guest lecturers at the 2009 annual meeting of the Society for Surgical Oncology.
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USA, Inc.
ISSUE: JUNE, 2009
By David Cossman, MD
There’s opportunity in hard times. No one understands this better than the party in power in Washington led by a newly minted president enjoying enormous popularity and unlimited political capital.
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Study of Gastric Bypass vs. Banding Has Mixed Results
ISSUE: JUNE, 2009
In the first randomized trial in the United States that compares the country’s most popular bariatric procedures, gastric bypass was shown to produce 50% more excess weight loss over four years than gastric banding. But the dramatic weight loss associated with the bypass comes at the price of increased perioperative and late complications, more 30-day readmissions to hospital, and slower recovery from surgery at a higher cost.
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