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Pre-Op Diet for Weight Loss Surgery: Tips for Staying on Track

Bariatric surgery is an option for people who are severely overweight to lose extra pounds and improve associated conditions such as diabetes. However, it’s not an easy way out, and it requires a big ...
Herald & Review

Dr. Roach: Redundant pre-op procedures may be avoidable

Dear Dr. Roach: Many of our local doctors insist on pre-procedure office visits prior to one-morning outpatient procedures such as rotator cuff surgery, colonoscopy and endoscopy. Since I receive ...
STAT

Pregnancy tests are routine before many surgical procedures. But Dobbs has raised the stakes of a positive result

Monica da Silva, a critical care and cardiac anesthesiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was counseling a patient who had been in a car accident. She had suffered a broken bone and ...
Sun Journal

Redundant pre-op procedures may be avoidable

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. DEAR DR. ROACH: Many of our local doctors insist on pre-procedure office ...
The St. Augustine Record

To your good health: Redundant pre-op procedures may be avoidable

DEAR DR. ROACH: Many of our local doctors insist on pre-procedure office visits prior to one-morning outpatient procedures such as rotator cuff surgery, colonoscopy and endoscopy. Since I receive ...