OCTOBER 17, 2022

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in the United States: How It All Began

Part 1 in a Series on the History Of Laparoscopy, Written by the Surgeons Who Were There

By Douglas O. Olsen, MD, FACS

Column Editor: Namir Katkhouda, MD, FACS

Eddie Joe Reddick, MD, from Nashville, Tenn.

I first heard of laparoscopic cholecystectomy when my partner, Dr. Eddie Joe Reddick, approached me on a Monday morning in the spring of 1988 in our office in Nashville, Tenn. He had just returned from a weekend course on the use of lasers in surgery, where he was giving a lecture on laser hemorrhoidectomy. Lasers had become a passion of his, and he was trying to figure out ways of

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Surgical Vanguard

Part 1 in a Series on the History Of Laparoscopy, Written by the Surgeons Who Were There