“Accidental awareness” is the terrifying phenomenon when patients can actually hear and feel surgeons cutting into them with no way to communicate that they are conscious. Needless to say, the experience can be extremely terrifying and even cause post-traumatic stress disorder. The largest study to date investigating the prevalence of this phenomenon has found that […]

The Right To Life: Baby Born To Clinically Dead Mother, But Will The Same Ring True In Controversial Irish Case? If the right to end an unborn child’s life is a mother’s choice, what happens when she is no longer able to make this decision? Thus was the case for a 23-week pregnant woman whose […]

University of Michigan Medical School study shows strategies for success amid career demands ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Physicians tend to marry later and their marriages last longer even as they face the challenges, like others with demanding professions, of giving time and attention to their partners and families. The University of Michigan Medical School interviewed […]

Whenever possible I make a point of rounding on patients with their nurses present. I rely on nurses to be my eyes and ears when I’m not at the bedside. I need their input to confirm patient self-reports of everything from bowel and bladder habits to pain control, not to mention catching early warning signs […]

Urologists are exploring the systematic integration of newer diagnostic tools for identifying men who may be at high risk for prostate cancer but are not being identified by traditional biopsy techniques. In this segment, Neal D. Shore, MD, FACS, and Sanford J. Siegel, MD, FACS, describe how one of these tools, the multiparametric MRI fusion […]