surgeon

A surgeon is a medical doctor who performs operations to treat injuries and diseases. They work in various specialties, such as thoracic, neurosurgery, and general surgery.

Why it’s in the news: Surgeons are in the news due to recent high-profile cases, including a controversial operation in Japan and the use of AI in a London procedure.

Latest on surgeon

• Japanese surgeon removes healthy brain tissue, leaving woman on ventilator
• Opinion: I’m a thoracic surgeon in New York City. For many of my patients, Sept. 11 is still not over
• Inspired by childhood surgery, Chinese man now works alongside saviour surgeon 19 years later
• London surgeons remove brain tumour in first AI-assisted operation of its kind
• In world first, Chinese surgeons successfully reattach man's severed legs
• Vietnamese surgeons perform first penis transplant, among 6 ever documented worldwide
• Hospitals have checklists. They have protocols. They have peer review. None of it caught this.
• that critical decision-making in the operating room often depends on a single person's ability to recognize what they're looking at, under pressure, with incomplete information
• The probe found the surgeon exhibited 'confirmation bias' when identifying structures in the abdominal cavity during the procedure.
• A surgeon at Tseung Kwan O Hospital in Hong Kong operated on the wrong organ of an 85-year-old woman on February 7, according to a hospital investigation released Thursday. The incident proved fatal for the patient

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