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General Surgery
Claude H. Organ, Jr, MD;
John Maurice Porter, MD
JAMA. 1998;280:495-496.
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INTRODUCTION
IMPORTANT recent developments in general surgery include modification of the approach to the management of severely injured patients. Outcome data have become available for some types of laparoscopic surgery, and medical and surgical resources on the Internet are increasing.
Surgery on the Internet
The discipline of surgery has rapidly accelerated onto the information superhighway, the Internet. Wang et al,1 describing the Internet as "one of the greatest developments in informational exchange this century," provided an overview of the Internet for physicians, including electronic mail, mailing lists, and the World Wide Web. Richards2-3 described, particularly for the surgeon, the origins of the Internet and the uses of the World Wide Web. Several major surgical societies, including the American College of Surgeons (http://www.facs.org), the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (http://www.aast.org), and the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (http://east.org. . . [Full Text of this Article]
Damage Control Surgery
Laparoscopic Surgery
From the the University of California, Davis–East Bay, Oakland.
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