surgsynopsis_spr2018_gtkberfield

[…] Cats or dogs? Cats Movie or book? Movie Mountains or beach? Beach Cardio or Weights? Cardio Big Party or Small Gathering? Small gathering Facebook or Twitter? Facebook Online Shopping or Shopping in a Store? Online shopping At a movie: Candy or Popcorn? Candy Pancake or Waff le? Wa f f le Movie at Home […]

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Surgery Synopsis – Spring 2018

[…] Cats or dogs? Cats Movie or book? Movie Mountains or beach? Beach Cardio or Weights? Cardio Big Party or Small Gathering? Small gathering Facebook or Twitter? Facebook Online Shopping or Shopping in a Store? Online shopping At a movie: Candy or Popcorn? Candy Pancake or Waff le? Wa f f le Movie at Home […]

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Surgery Synopsis – Fall 2022

[…] and have to be healthier, it’s usually something with peanut butter…like donuts with peanut butter. What is your favorite guilty pleasure? That would be watching HGTV while online shopping. Who is your inspiration and why? It ’s probably my mother. She was a single parent when I was growing up after my father died, […]

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Surgery Synopsis – Summer/Fall 2020 – Chair’s Column

[…] 2019 Pandemic—The University of Washington Ex – perience;” • Restructuring department resi – dency orientation days to allow for social distancing; • Moving all didactic teaching to online formats; Amidst these changes, we addition – ally look ahead to the next academic year as resident recruitment season begins. We are adapting and changing in […]

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Surgery Synopsis – Summer/Fall 2020

[…] 2019 Pandemic—The University of Washington Ex – perience;” • Restructuring department resi – dency orientation days to allow for social distancing; • Moving all didactic teaching to online formats; Amidst these changes, we addition – ally look ahead to the next academic year as resident recruitment season begins. We are adapting and changing in […]

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U.S. News: UW Medical Center state’s best for 8th year

Aerial view of UW Medical Center

[…] high-performing in colon cancer surgery and lung cancer surgery. The U.S. News Best Hospitals ranking  methodologies are based on measures such as risk-adjusted survival and readmission rates, volume, outcomes such as ‘discharged to home,” patient’s reports on their hospital experience, and quality of nursing, among other care-related indicators. The 2019-2020 hospital rankings are available online at usnews.com/best-hospitals.

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New Clinical Practice Guidelines Recommend Use of Arteries Rather than Veins in Heart Bypass Surgery

[…] arteries from the chest and forearm rather than using veins from the leg when performing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery in certain patients. The guidelines, posted online today, will appear in the February 2016 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. The left internal thoracic artery (chest artery) is considered the gold standard […]

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