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More surgeons are opting for a complicated hernia repair that they learned from videos on social media showing shoddy techniques.

A new study led by Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University researcher Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, has found that women, racial and ethnic minorities and individuals identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer are disproportionately affected by workplace mistreatment in academic medicine, and this mistreatment negatively impacts their mental health. The study, which was published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked specifically at three aspects of workplace mistreatment in academic medicine – sexual harassment, cyber incivility and negative work...

A new study finds that surgeons' use of shared decision-making is highly variable, but editorialists argue that this approach may be inappropriate when a scenario is clear-cut.

About one in six patients needed surgery for hernia recurrence within 10 years of their initial operation.

Almost 10% of once-contraindicated patients had a safe hernia repair after 'optimization' program