Category: Surgery
Hospitals Battle For Control Over Fast-Growing Heart-Valve Procedure
“It’s all about the money,” says one surgeon of the battle over which hospitals can perform transcatheter aortic valve replacement, also known as TAVR.
As Surgery Centers Boom, Patients Are Paying With Their Lives
The centers started as low-cost alternatives for minor surgeries. They now outnumber hospitals, and regulators OK’d ever-widening array of outpatient procedures
Considering knee surgery? Read this first
It is intuitive to think that when something is broken in the knee, fixing it with surgery is necessary. Research shows this is not necessarily so.