Some common general surgeries had the biggest migrations to the outpatient setting during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a retrospective cohort study confirmed. Compared with the previous ...

Junior residents getting less exposure to general surgery, study finds The growing popularity of minimally invasive surgery and accompanied decline in open procedures means junior residents are ...

General surgery is one of the core pillars of modern medicine, encompassing a broad spectrum of surgical procedures that address conditions affecting various organs and body systems. Unlike ...

HONG KONG, Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hong Kong Health Insurance (HKHI) has revealed a trend amongst Hong Kong doctors over-prescribing expensive and unnecessary surgeries in the private health ...

Findings from an analysis that included more than 200,000 patients who underwent common surgical procedures suggests that the optimal length of opioid pain prescriptions is four to nine days for ...