 Oxford – The thought of waking up during general anesthesia while the surgeon is using the scalpel is just so disturbing that the risk of intraoperative awareness (AWR) is often overestimated by the general public. A survey conducted with the participation of all British anesthesiologists reveals just how rare these sorts of events are. The…
 The patients, who have suffered a surgical intervention by an experienced surgeon, have a rate of mortality on long term with 22% inferior to those who have been treated by surgeons with a lower volume of surgical interventions in their list of achievements. According to which criteria should one chose his/her doctor or surgeon…
Once Romania entered the European Union in 2007, significant advantages for the highly skilled and educated were created with the liberalization of the labor-market. Gabriel B. lives in Germany since 2007, and is currently in the 5th residency year as a General Surgeon. After graduating medicine in 2007, Gabriel moved to Nordrhein-Westfalen in a city…
Berlin – “Surgery consists of more than just the pure surgical act†, this statement was pointed out by the German Society of Surgery, prior to a joint session noted with different sub-affiliates in August. “A well performed surgery is not composed by only the professionally executed operation, rather it is the result of…
July brings Hungary the first online national waiting list registration system, a system that is meant to be easy to keep track of, highlighting the number of people waiting for various operations throughout the country. Zsolt Kiss, the National Health Insurance Fund Strategic Head of the Division of MTI, stated that the new system is…