Enlarge this image Sarah Witter had two operations to repair bones in her lower left leg after a skiing accident last February.…
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Bill Of The Month: $43,208 For Repeat Surgery To Replace Broken Medical Device
by Jordan Rau December 18, 2018Enlarge this image Sarah Witter fractured two bones in her lower left leg while skiing in Vermont last February. She had two…
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Sales Reps May Be Wearing Out Their Welcome In The Operating Room
by Blake Farmer November 23, 2018Enlarge this image Ochsner Baptist Medical Center in New Orleans hasn’t needed device reps’ help since it started using technology from a…
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Civil War Battlefield ‘Limb Pit’ Reveals Work Of Combat Surgeons
by Christopher Joyce June 20, 2018Enlarge this image A pit of amputated limbs and two nearly complete skeletons that date back to the Civil War were discovered…
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Enlarge this image Widely perceived as fierce guardians of health care spending, insurers, in many cases, aren’t. In fact, they often agree…
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The Mysterious Case Of ‘Vanishing Bone’ And Hip Replacements Gone Wrong
by Carey Goldberg March 11, 2018Enlarge this image Dr. Joshua Jacobs, an orthopedic surgeon, displays a model of a cementless hip replacement in 2014. M. Spencer Green/AP…
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Popular Surgery To Ease Chronic Shoulder Pain Called Into Question
by Patti Neighmond November 21, 2017Enlarge this image Doctors think the chronic pain of “shoulder impingement” may arise from age-related tendon and muscle degeneration, or from a…
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Arthritis of the knee is very common, and isn’t helped by arthroscopic surgery, a study finds. BSIP/UIG via Getty Images hide caption…