"Beginning in the very earliest of times, any surgical operation was literally an agonizing, terrifying ordeal-a living and many times, a dying hell. Even a trip to the dentist for a tooth extraction was a much feared, and dreaded experience." Imagine yourself, walking down a dusty, cobb...

The History and Development of Modern Day Plastic Surgery Because mankind had continuously "sought fulfillment through self-improvement without the individual's pursuit of learning and illumination, each with his or her neighbors and more capable means to work, progress would stop&qu...

My favorite word is miracle. It is a word of impossible possibilities. I know this is a paradox, but it's accurate. Recently I imagined what it would be like to witness a miracle first hand. I am a young medical student with clearance to observe a master surgeon at work. I stared through the glass...

Remote- Control Surgery According to the Toledo Blades article on Remote-Control Surgery by Luke Shockman, A doctor would have sliced a patient open just a few years ago. Physicians say a patient would have a slow and painful recovery. Now with the new age of Robotic surgery, all that can be chan...

"Amputations accounted for seventy-five percent of all operations performed by Civil War doctors" (Napoleonic Guide). Medical physicians in the eighteenth century were not as well trained or efficient as present-day workers; therefore, the attention that wounded men in battle received was...

PLASTIC SURGERY. The medical specialty of plastic surgery is concerned with the reshaping of body tissues to correct patients' disfigurements and malformations and to improve physical appearance. The word plastic comes from the Greek plastikos, meaning "to shape" or "to form." The primary objectives...

Plastic surgery today is often done especially for cosmetic reasons, to remove blemishes or to change contours. Among the most common of the cosmetic plastic surgery operations are rhinoplasty (remodeling of the nose) and face-lifting, to remove the signs of aging. Another cosmetic technique is the ...