In a very rare incident, a patient woke up during brain surgery and unknowingly carried on a conversation with the operating room doctors and staff about her cats and about missing Christmas.
The Grammy winning singer and song writer, Adele, recently underwent microsurgery on her vocal cords to remove a benign polyp. The surgery took place at Massachusetts General Hospital by Dr. Steven Zeitels. Dr. Zeitels is purported by the hospital to have had pioneered many surgical procedures that a…
Nose jobs are nothing to sniff at. In fact, one-third of people who have their noses surgically altered may be mentally ill, reports the New York Times. A Belgian study suggests they may have body dysmorphic disorder, a mental condition in which sufferers agonize over minor or perceived bodily defects…