The Department of Surgery was founded in 1837, earlier than the medical school, under the leadership of the first professor of surgery at Saint Louis University, Dr. William Beaumont. He was a U.S.

“ THE escape from pain in surgical operations is a chimera which it is idle to follow up to-day. ‘ Knife ’ and ‘ pain ’ in surgery are two words which are always inseparable in the minds of patients, ...

Ira Rutkow’s “Empire of the Scalpel” is by turns fascinating and ghastly. By Henry Marsh When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. EMPIRE OF ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Dr. David Schneider: Prior to the 1870s, no one believed in germs. You believed in bad air. Maybe it’s the ...

Improvements in quality, delivery and availability of healthcare are vital and rightly command attention at regional, national and global levels. As clinicians and scientists have advanced their ...

As you and everybody in the world with an Internet connection now knows, Angelina Jolie had her fallopian tubes and uterus removed as part of an ongoing series of preventative surgeries for cancer.

“The man had almost no face left; a bullet had hit his mouth and exploded, blasting through his cheeks, shattering his jaws, ripping out his tongue, a bit of which was hanging down, and the blood ...

Global Surgery Track Residents Youmna Sherif, M.D.; Sukriti Bansal, M.D.; and Lubna Khan, M.D. received second place in the 2022 History of Surgery Poster Competition for their poster “The Evolution ...