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Statue of Controversial Surgeon to Be Moved From Central Park Dr J. Marion Sims, dubbed 'the father of modern gynecology,' performed experimental surgery on slave women without consent and without anesthesia.
Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2018

Further Hazards of Mismatched Surgical Aortic Valve Prostheses Survival suffers after a later transcatheter valve-in-valve procedure, should it be needed, if the failed surgical prosthetic valve wasn't originally up to the patient's cardiac output needs.
Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2018
Rise of Sleeve Gastrectomy Is No Therapeutic Misadventure Three new studies 'provide reassuring data to suggest that the rapid switch from Roux-en-Y gastric bypass to sleeve gastrectomy in the last decade has not been a therapeutic misadventure.'
Medscape Medical News, January 16, 2018

Alert New HHS Division to Protect Clinicians With Religious Objections The Trump administration opens the new unit within HHS to focus on claims of coercion on medical staff to perform abortions and other procedures over religious objections.
Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2018
Flu Intensity, IV Bag Shortage Have Hospitals Scrambling
Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2018
Health Programs Threatened by Possible Government Shutdown
Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2018
A Nudge May Be Enough to Change Healthcare Behavior
Medscape Medical News, January 17, 2018

Government Ban on Seven Words Creates Anger Among Physicians Last year, the Washington Post reported that the CDC was banned from using seven scientific words. What do physicians think of the ban?
Medscape Business of Medicine, January 19, 2018
Burnout Might Really Be Depression; How Do Doctors Cope? Medscape asked physicians whether they experienced burnout, depression, or both. Some experts say that burnout is really a form of depression. Would that change the recommended treatment?
Medscape Business of Medicine, January 17, 2018

A Closer Look at Robotic Surgery Cost, Use, and Trends Dr Lowenfels comments on several studies examining costs, outcomes, and recent trends in robotic surgery compared with other procedural approaches.
Medscape General Surgery, January 5, 2018
Eric Topol's Top 10 Tech Advances Shaping Medicine Dr Eric Topol identifies the latest tech advances in medicine that set the stage for the coming year.
Medscape, January 11, 2018

Eric J. Topol, MD Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Executive Vice President and Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute; Senior Consultant, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape