By Dr. Gifford Jones Sunday, August 23, 2009
Are you scheduled for surgery in 2010? If so, you should know that agreeing to an operation involves some risk. This is a fact of life, and there may never be a way to reduce the risk to zero. But a study from The Harvard Medical School shows there’s a proven way to cut deaths following surgery by 40 percent.
An innovative surgical technique gives hope to patients suffering from refractory epilepsyBy Online Thursday, June 25, 2009
Clinicians from the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) have perfected an operation, which was previously considered too dangerous, to control refractory insular epilepsy, using an innovative microsurgery technique. According to a study published as the feature article in the latest issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery, the new surgical technique is both safe and beneficial for patients.
LASIK Eye SurgeryBy Dr. Gifford Jones Sunday, October 5, 2008
“Would you take the risk of jumping out of a plane with a parachute?” I asked the patient.
The Benefits and Risk of Laparoscopic CholecystectomyBy Dr. Gifford Jones Monday, May 26, 2008
In 1991 Dr. Joacques Perissat at the University of Bordeau, in France, announced to the World Congress of Surgeons that he had removed a gallbladder (cholecystectomy), using optical instruments inserted through a few small incisions. Now, 90 percent of gallbladder operations are done by fiber-optics. What are the advantages and what is its most devastating complication? And why is the crematorium the cure for some gallstones?
