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Providing Excellence: Removing a Complex Hernia with Robotic Surgery

Two surgeries in one day. Thanks to Mission Health’s commitment to bring world-class technology to the people of western North Carolina, 74-year-old Alice McLaughlin, a retired blanket mill worker who lives in Swannanoa and is the caregiver to her 47-year-old son who was paralyzed in a car accident, only spent one night recovering in the… Read More: Providing Excellence: Removing a Complex Hernia with Robotic Surgery »

Death, pain and soaring wait lists: How surgery backlogs have become pandemic’s lingering collateral damage

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Health and Wellness Health Canada ‘I have lost a lot of patients on the wait list … Those patients and their families deserve recognition that they are victims of this pandemic, too’ Author of the article: Tom Blackwell Publishing date: May 19, 2021  •  2 days ago  •  6 minute read  • … Read More: Death, pain and soaring wait lists: How surgery backlogs have… »