Less than 4 percent of respondents to an online survey knew anything about the practice of overlapping surgeries, according to findings published in the Journal of American College of Surgeons. The 51 ...

Dr. Michael E. DeBakey became known as the father of modern cardiovascular surgery for the innovative procedures he pioneered while serving as president of Baylor College of Medicine. The legendary ...

The Department of Justice has fined Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center $15 million for allowing cardiac surgeons to perform more than one surgery at the same time. The government believes that surgeons ...

(HealthDay News) — On average, patients are neutral toward or uncomfortable with concurrent or overlapping surgical procedures, according to a study published in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital has agreed to pay $14.6 million to settle a federal whistleblower lawsuit alleging that the hospital violated Medicare and Medicaid rules when some of its ...

Are UCSD doctors violating university policy by conducting simultaneous operations in the institution’s array of surgical suites? “The Policy defines Overlapping Surgery as an ‘operation or procedure ...

As controversy around concurrent surgeries continues to brew, The Washington Post ran a Kaiser Health News story breaking down concurrent surgeries. Here's what you should know: 1. Concurrent ...

In the very early years of open-heart surgery, when the supply of surgeons failed to meet the demand for their services, the giants of cardiovascular surgery would walk from operating room to ...

Overlapping surgery - in which a single senior surgeon operates across two parallel operating theatres and anaesthetists induce anaesthesia and junior surgeons commence and complete the operation – ...

An exciting concept but there’s no evidence overlapping surgery will increase number of operations, and it might increase costs, say researchers. Overlapping surgery involves organising surgical lists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Joseph Lamelas had been a star cardiac surgeon at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach when the Baylor College of ...