Underweight patients are more likely to die after emergency general surgery than patients who are normal weight or overweight ...

More than 15 million Americans live in one of the 1,180 US counties with no general surgeon, and 951 counties have no surgeon in any of 12 surgical specialties, according to a new national analysis ...

General surgery is a broad field that encompasses a variety of procedures aimed at treating conditions affecting various parts of the body. Understanding the fundamentals of general surgery can help ...

The United States is projected to face a shortfall of 2,020 FTE general surgeons in 2026, with the gap expected to grow to ...

The effects of spinal anesthesia as compared with general anesthesia on the ability to walk in older adults undergoing surgery for hip fracture have not been well studied. We conducted a pragmatic, ...

Background Acute and emergency general surgery in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) faces critical disparities. Despite ...

With Dr. Casey Means’ nomination to be the next surgeon general stalled in the Senate, a Cato Institute policy scholar is questioning the need to even have a surgeon general. The nation has gone more ...