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The diverse array of diseases encountered by family physicians presents significant challenges to provide the best patient care consistent with evolving treatment. This supplement addresses some of these challenges by offering the insights of primary care and sub-specialist physicians about diseases whose management is rapidly evolving or where significant practice gaps exist.

 

 

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The diverse array of diseases encountered by family physicians presents significant challenges to provide the best patient care consistent with evolving treatment. This supplement addresses some of these challenges by offering the insights of primary care and sub-specialist physicians about diseases whose management is rapidly evolving or where significant practice gaps exist.

 

 

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The Power of Art in Medicine explores the role of artistic expression as a means of educating health care providers and, ultimately, improving communication with their patients. Author Lynn McKinley-Grant, MD, reviews the literature and offers personal insights gleaned from years of firsthand experience as the cofounder of the Insight Institute. This supplement also describes the Patient Listening Project, which asked patients living with psoriasis to create art to communicate the burden of their disease to physicians.A supplement to Dermatology News™. This supplement was sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

 

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The Role of Liposomal Bupivacaine in Postsurgical Analgesia

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Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening has been shown to save lives. Screening can prevent CRC by detecting and removing precancerous adenomatous polyps, which are the precursors of most cancers.1 Screening also can detect cancer at an early, asymptomatic stage while it is still localized and amenable to treatment; 5-year survival rates are 80% to 90% for patients with localized, early stage I/II CRC.2

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Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening has been shown to save lives. Screening can prevent CRC by detecting and removing precancerous adenomatous polyps, which are the precursors of most cancers.1 Screening also can detect cancer at an early, asymptomatic stage while it is still localized and amenable to treatment; 5-year survival rates are 80% to 90% for patients with localized, early stage I/II CRC.2

Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening has been shown to save lives. Screening can prevent CRC by detecting and removing precancerous adenomatous polyps, which are the precursors of most cancers.1 Screening also can detect cancer at an early, asymptomatic stage while it is still localized and amenable to treatment; 5-year survival rates are 80% to 90% for patients with localized, early stage I/II CRC.2

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Perspectives in Pediatrics: From Theory to Practice

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BEST PRACTICES: An Oral Treatment for Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis

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Nephropathic Cystinosis: Diagnosis, Management, and Challenges in Long-term Treatment

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Innovations in patient safety for women's health: Minimally invasive gynecologic surgery

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Every surgeon knows that, if you operate, complications will follow. Surgeons are perfectionists and strive to reduce complications through years of diligent personal training and continuous quality improvement. Surgeons hate complications, especially those that might be preventable (such as retained foreign bodies, wrong site surgery, and medication errors).

In this special issue of OBG Management, world-renowned experts focus on topical issues in safety in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery (MIGS). In a roundtable, Drs. Neal Lonky, John Gebhart, Rosanne Kho, and Malcolm Munro discuss important issues in MIGS, including the need to prioritize the vaginal and laparoscopic routes of hysterectomy and the role of single-port surgery. In a concise yet detailed discussion of safety issues related to radiofrequency and ultrasound energy devices, Dr. Munro alerts us to the dangers of heat injury and direct and capacitative coupling. Drs. Andrew Sokol and Katelyn Smithling provide guidance on preventing apical prolapse of the vagina following hysterectomy. And Dr. Antonio Gargiulo explores the rapidly expanding role of simulation training with computer-assisted (robotic) surgical simulators and predicts that, instead of learning surgery on patients, future trainees will gain skills in a simulation environment.

We thank the master surgeons who participated in this special issue for providing guidance and helping us to reduce complications. Our patients are the beneficiaries of the wisdom provided herein.

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Every surgeon knows that, if you operate, complications will follow. Surgeons are perfectionists and strive to reduce complications through years of diligent personal training and continuous quality improvement. Surgeons hate complications, especially those that might be preventable (such as retained foreign bodies, wrong site surgery, and medication errors).

In this special issue of OBG Management, world-renowned experts focus on topical issues in safety in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery (MIGS). In a roundtable, Drs. Neal Lonky, John Gebhart, Rosanne Kho, and Malcolm Munro discuss important issues in MIGS, including the need to prioritize the vaginal and laparoscopic routes of hysterectomy and the role of single-port surgery. In a concise yet detailed discussion of safety issues related to radiofrequency and ultrasound energy devices, Dr. Munro alerts us to the dangers of heat injury and direct and capacitative coupling. Drs. Andrew Sokol and Katelyn Smithling provide guidance on preventing apical prolapse of the vagina following hysterectomy. And Dr. Antonio Gargiulo explores the rapidly expanding role of simulation training with computer-assisted (robotic) surgical simulators and predicts that, instead of learning surgery on patients, future trainees will gain skills in a simulation environment.

We thank the master surgeons who participated in this special issue for providing guidance and helping us to reduce complications. Our patients are the beneficiaries of the wisdom provided herein.

>>Robert L. Barbieri, MD
Editor in Chief, OBG Management

To view the video, "McCall" culdoplasty technique by Mickey Karram, MD, that accompanies the article by Sokol et al in this supplement, click here.

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Every surgeon knows that, if you operate, complications will follow. Surgeons are perfectionists and strive to reduce complications through years of diligent personal training and continuous quality improvement. Surgeons hate complications, especially those that might be preventable (such as retained foreign bodies, wrong site surgery, and medication errors).

In this special issue of OBG Management, world-renowned experts focus on topical issues in safety in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery (MIGS). In a roundtable, Drs. Neal Lonky, John Gebhart, Rosanne Kho, and Malcolm Munro discuss important issues in MIGS, including the need to prioritize the vaginal and laparoscopic routes of hysterectomy and the role of single-port surgery. In a concise yet detailed discussion of safety issues related to radiofrequency and ultrasound energy devices, Dr. Munro alerts us to the dangers of heat injury and direct and capacitative coupling. Drs. Andrew Sokol and Katelyn Smithling provide guidance on preventing apical prolapse of the vagina following hysterectomy. And Dr. Antonio Gargiulo explores the rapidly expanding role of simulation training with computer-assisted (robotic) surgical simulators and predicts that, instead of learning surgery on patients, future trainees will gain skills in a simulation environment.

We thank the master surgeons who participated in this special issue for providing guidance and helping us to reduce complications. Our patients are the beneficiaries of the wisdom provided herein.

>>Robert L. Barbieri, MD
Editor in Chief, OBG Management

To view the video, "McCall" culdoplasty technique by Mickey Karram, MD, that accompanies the article by Sokol et al in this supplement, click here.

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