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Return of the Surgical Cap: General Surgery News

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Will surgical caps make a comeback in the OR? A shift in may be on the horizon.

"I came to realize that it's our ability to elicit people's priorities that ultimately matters," Atul Gawande, MD, said in a recent on becoming a good surgeon.

A recent has found that using Kadcyla, in lieu of Herceptin, to treat HER2-positive early breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy improves invasive disease-free survival.

The current state of in the U.S. "doesn't cut it anymore," surgeons say.

A new designed for patients to use at home may help prevent deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism after surgery.

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