Congress tinkering with patent law while gagging inventors is like a surgeon operating before examining the patient.
Everyone should take note that this patient survived that complication because the procedure was performed in the operating room with a surgeon immediately on standby.
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But it's not clear if the performance lapses seen in the study would be meaningful in real-world operating rooms, says surgeon Emily Boyle, the lead author of the study and a researcher at the Royal College of Surgeons, in Dublin, Ireland.
Using small instruments under an operating microscope, your surgeon creates an opening in the sclera the white of your eye and removes a small piece of eye tissue at the base of your cornea through which fluid drains from your eye (the trabecular meshwork).
At McAllen Medical Center, I saw an orthopedic surgeon work under an operating microscope to remove a tumor that had wrapped around the spinal cord of a fourteen-year-old.
Once their colleagues in orthopedic surgery saw the plan in action, they bought extra equipment so that they, too, could set aside some operating rooms and set up a surgeon-of-the-week program.
There are the surgeon's fee, the operating room charge, equipment and supplies, the hospital bed during recovery, and other costs.
The spokesman said there was no relation between those claims and the fact that the surgeon had been asked to stop operating.
Success required having an array of equipment and people at the ready helicopter-rescue personnel, trauma surgeons, an experienced cardiac anesthesiologist and surgeon, bioengineering support staff, operating and critical-care nurses, intensivists.
After 1986 I felt like a skilled surgeon who's been locked out of the operating room and watches through the glass in horror as some first-year medical students go to work on a patient.
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