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What is: surgery?

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, and sometimes for religious reasons. An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical procedure, operation, or simply surgery. In this context, the verb operate means performing surgery. The adjective surgical means pertaining to surgery; e.g. surgical instruments or surgical nurse. The patient or subject on which the surgery is performed can be a person or an animal. A surgeon is a person who performs operations on patients. In rare cases, surgeons may operate on themselves. Persons described as surgeons are commonly medical practitioners, but the term is also applied to physicians, podiatric physicians, dentists and veterinarians. Surgery can last from minutes to hours, but is typically not an ongoing or periodic type of treatment.

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Verdun Alan: This article in today's Sunday LA Times http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-prostate-20100529,0,4596703.story
05-31-2010 07:38 PM
3 4 Benign prostatic hypertrophy
J: http://blog.taragana.com/health/2010/04/07/tennis-great-martina-navratilova-diagnosed-with-noninvasive-breast-cancer-prognosis-excellent-21452/ Tennis great Martina Navratilova diagnosed with noninvasive breast cancer; prognosis excellent By AP...
04-07-2010 11:15 PM
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Info: Has anyone had the joy of "TURP?" My doctor said it might be indicated depending on the results of the tests that I'm taking in about three weeks. His explanation follows and below that is a link that explains the surgery. I've not finished...
03-25-2010 05:36 AM
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My Name: Abbott device as effective as open heart surgery Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:01:09 GMT Scientists have recently announced that the experimental, minimally invasive technique used to repair the most common type of heart valve problem is safe. ...
03-16-2010 02:45 PM
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Surge Group: The Journey towards Surgical cure is not always a pleasant one. Apprehension towards pain and post-operative morbidity and complications are always on the minds of the patient and his near and dear ones. It is a physical, social and financial...
12-30-2009 06:49 AM
0 9 Psychobiology
Robert Cohen: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/health/15surg.html?em
12-16-2009 02:47 PM
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Raymond: Woman Catches Fire During Surgery on the operating table at Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion, Ill., By JIM SUHR, AP ST. LOUIS (Sept. 17) - A southern Illinois woman died after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing...
09-22-2009 06:13 AM
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Tamara: Hello, I had the Green Light procedure on 7/8/09, i wore a cathader for a few days after which i had blood in my urine, after a few days this symptom disappeared, but when i has sex after two weeks, i have had a burning sensation mostly at the...
08-03-2009 10:45 PM
4 5 Benign prostatic hypertrophy
willshak: Endoscope video of actual PVP surgery. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKrKWfy3sjU -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY To email, remove the double zeroes after @
07-17-2009 08:36 PM
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Raymond: Dead after knee surgery, a story of apparent multiple little failures A 76 year old male entered a hospital for elective knee surgery. Roughly twenty four hours after the surgery he was dead. If the article, which appeared in the News and...
04-11-2009 02:33 AM
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James and Joan M: Hi, Does anyone know anything about the lap band surgery and is it safe? Jim M.
03-22-2009 01:55 AM
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Raymond: Epidural air entrapment after spinal surgery Memduh Kaymaza, Namık Öztanira, Hakan Emmeza, Zerrin Özköseb, Aydın Paşaoğlua Received 5 January 2004; received in revised form 14 August 2004; accepted 14 September 2004. Abstract A case which...
03-01-2009 10:03 PM
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rpautrey2: Celebrity doctor tells of oral sex in surgery Harriet Alexander August 26, 2008 A CELEBRITY doctor who engaged in oral sex with one of his patients claims the woman pressed herself on him because she was so grateful he agreed to perform a...
09-08-2008 06:33 PM
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Bill: Joint surgery caused problems instead of solving them? Who would have thought?? http://www.tri-cityherald.com/1154/story/294342.html A little commentary on the same case from the "Dr. Bicuspid" site: Kallestad, 29, a former cheerleader...
09-05-2008 03:54 PM
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Dan Mayolo: A relative of mine has been diagnosed with melanoma: melanoma mal., nodular, Breslow 3,1 mm Clark IV, pT3b (with ulceration). She has undergone surgery where melanoma and some lymph nodes have been removed. At this point she is analyzing...
08-30-2008 04:57 PM
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erach27@gmail.com: for arthritis try this: rotate your legs cycling or anti-cycling or massage downwards will reduce pain very fast. instead of oscillating feet like pendulum. And yes, you can cure heart transplant in 7 year old boy without surgery if you...
08-25-2008 04:18 AM
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oralhealth@comcast.net: When does scar tissue cause pain?
08-22-2008 03:19 AM
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cyber: The age would be best to get the lasik eye surgery I've known people of various ages (30 - 70 yrs old) who have gotten the surgery. The doctor would not do the surgery on a teenager because their eyes were still changing For more information......
08-19-2008 07:47 AM
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Razor: Does anyone have any experience with the PerioProtect system of periodontal disease control. Or even know what it is
08-16-2008 10:07 PM
51 1,161 Dentistry
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08-15-2008 05:45 PM
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