The term "second victim syndrome" describes the emotional and psychological impact healthcare workers may experience after ...

When asked “what is your surgical site infection rate?” one will get an answer that is almost certainly removed from reality. As a career academic surgeon, it has always been interesting to me how ...

Most people associate diabetes with high blood sugar, but the disease can also lead to several serious complications ...

Whether it's through word of mouth or searching online, finding the best surgeon can often be a glorified guessing game for many patients. There has never been a way to see doctors' rates of ...

Patients have another searchable online tool for choosing a physician, this one reporting complication rates for eight elective surgical procedures by individual physician. ProPublica, an ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is known to cause many and various potential difficulties, from common issues like fatigue and vision problems to less common ones like breathing problems and hearing loss.

The body is filled with all kinds of proteins that make up your tissues, muscles, and even blood. Over time or with certain injuries, some of these proteins can build up in places. When cataracts form ...

In a study carried out at a single center in Canada, no significant start time-related difference in intraoperative ...

Skin irritations, stoma retractions, prolapse, or blockage are some of the more common complications of a colostomy. About 150,000 new colostomies or ileostomies are performed each year in the United ...

Coming up with a definition of a grand complication timepiece is almost as difficult as building one but several experts in the refined and complex discipline of haute horlogerie made such an attempt ...