Surgeons and medical specialists from Swedish and other participating physician groups will provide their care at no charge to clinic patients.
Specialists in Family Medicine; Pediatric Neurology; General Surgery, and Ear, Nose & Throat.
Surgeons at Swedish have performed more than 2,000 robotic-assisted procedures, more than any other surgical robotics program in the Pacific Northwest.
University of Washington researchers William Kreuter and Dr. Jeffrey Jarvik were co-authors of the JAMA paper.
Same-day surgery can result in lower costs and for some patients safer and more convenient–but no surgery is risk-free.
Seattle’s Swedish Medical Center is “Twittering” a robotic-assisted surgery, describing the case step-by-step.
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, preparing for and recovering from surgery, navigating health-related legal documents.
System allows surgeons to operate through dime-sized incisions.
Swedish Medical Center has opened the first operating room in the country specifically configured for robotic surgery.
Should you go overseas for medical care? Thousands of Americans now go abroad for medical care. The price is right: well-regarded hospitals in India, for example, can charge 60 percent to 90 percent less than a U.S. facility for the same service. Most Americans go overseas for cosmetic surgery like facelifts and liposuction but an [...]
Using a simple checklist to make sure operating teams completed important safety tasks before, during and after operating, reduced surgical deaths and serious post-operative complications by roughly one third.
In this column, Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, talks about what hospitals—and you—can do to prevent hospital-acquired infections.
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