A good surgeon has an eagle’s eye, a lion’s heart, and a lady’s hand. (English) A good surgeon must have soft words and a firm hand. (Spanish) Call not a surgeon before you are wounded....

Surgery has a long history in the healing arts. Its history dates back thousands of years to the great seats of early civilization in Athens, Rome, and Alexandria. However, amputations and invasive wound-healing procedures can even be traced to Upper...

During the Renaissance, between 1450 and 1699, surgery was a mix of art, science, and myth. The art of caring for a soldier's battle wounds, the myth of blood-letting to cure or prevent disease, and the advances in scientific surgery for breast...

Surgeons of the twentieth century inherited many ideas and techniques from earlier physicians, which they continued to investigate and improve. Three age-old problems that plagued surgeons—pain, infection, and shock—were beginning to be...

In medicine, surgery (from the Greek χειρουργική, or chirurgical, and latin chirurgiae meaning "hand work") is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological...

Nearly 40 percent of patients with early pancreatic cancer who could be treated with surgery don't get the operation, dooming them to grim chances of survival, a study found.The complicated operation is tricky but safer than previously thought and can extend life, although chances of...

Doctors warn that a few obesity surgery patients have developed a serious neurological condition, with symptoms of confusion and poor coordination, linked to a lack of vitamin B1.Wernicke encephalopathy, which is caused by a thiamine deficiency, is normally associated with severe alcoholism or chronic malnutrition....

Rehabilitation chain HealthSouth Corp. said Monday it has agreed to sell its surgery division for about $920 million in cash plus a stake in the surgery business, its second major divestiture this year as it restructures after a major financial scandal. Its shares climbed more...

   As we age, our bones will show subtle changes that reflect the degree of physical activity we have engaged on over the years, accidents and other types of trauma. These changes would also affect our spine and may cause pain when they result in...