Read more surgeon stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/7779/surgeon.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 9:19:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/62488/posh-inspires-nipple-surgery-fad.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagVictoria Beckham has apparently helped fuel a mini-fad of nipple surgery following rather noticeable changes that she has been flaunting behind T-shirts, reports the Daily Mail . The operations--which the former Spice Girl may or may not have had--can modify size, color, and shape. One busy London clinic reports a 30%...http://www.newser.com/story/62488/posh-inspires-nipple-surgery-fad.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 22 Jun 2009 10:05:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/44256/obnoxious-docs-linked-to-dangerous-mistakes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIf your doctor's a jerk, it might be dangerous to your health. Many nurses are reporting that hostile, harried physicians often ignore their summons—or make them hesitant to questions in the first place. This "health care equivalent of road rage" causes errors, dangerous complications, and sometimes the patient's death,...http://www.newser.com/story/44256/obnoxious-docs-linked-to-dangerous-mistakes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 03 Dec 2008 9:37:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/39217/herpes-linked-to-brain-cancer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCancer researchers are finally taking seriously a young surgeon’s decade-long hunch that brain tumors are linked to a strain of herpes that lies dormant in 80% of Americans. The physician speculated that brain cancer patients—many of them affluent and educated—were more vulnerable to common viruses such as the...http://www.newser.com/story/39217/herpes-linked-to-brain-cancer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 06 Oct 2008 7:40:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32270/michael-debakey-dead-at-99.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichael DeBakey, the pioneering heart doctor considered to be the father of modern cardiovascular surgery, died last night at 99 in Houston, the Houston Chronicle reports. During his long career, DeBakey operated on some 60,000 patients, including figures like Russian president Boris Yeltsin, trained thousands of surgeons, and developed...http://www.newser.com/story/32270/michael-debakey-dead-at-99.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 12 Jul 2008 7:25:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28872/short-men-seek-surgical-stretching.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagShort, and even not-so-short men who feel their height is holding them back in life are turning to surgery in growing numbers, Details reports. Clinics abroad offer cosmetic limb lengthening that can add a few inches of height, but the bill can top $100,000 and the procedure, which involves...http://www.newser.com/story/28872/short-men-seek-surgical-stretching.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 31 May 2008 10:25:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/21367/doc-linked-to-17-aussie-deaths-busted-in-portland.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA doctor accused of leaving a bloody trail of surgical mistakes from New York to Australia to Oregon, has been arrested in Portland, the AP reports. Jayant Patel, a US citizen, fled to Oregon in 2005 after an inquiry was launched into botched operations linked to 17 deaths at a...http://www.newser.com/story/21367/doc-linked-to-17-aussie-deaths-busted-in-portland.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 12 Mar 2008 10:05:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/20170/case-against-transplant-doc-raises-concern.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCharges against a California surgeon for hastening the death of a disabled man so his organs could be harvested for transplants has advocates worried, the New York Times reports. At issue is whether Dr. Hootan Roozrokh ignored protocol in pursuit of organs for transplant or if he misused, or misunderstood,...http://www.newser.com/story/20170/case-against-transplant-doc-raises-concern.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 27 Feb 2008 11:11:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/17009/more-patients-undoing-nips-and-tucks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThousands are feeling a little too "cookie-cutter" with their new nipped noses and tucked chins, one doctor says—so they're ponying up for surgery to look like (gasp!) themselves again. These 'undo-plasties' are becoming big business; some doctors spend half their time as "revision plastic surgeons." Even stars like...http://www.newser.com/story/17009/more-patients-undoing-nips-and-tucks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 21 Jan 2008 18:14:30 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/5060/transplant-doc-accused-of-quickening-patients-death.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA San Francisco surgeon is facing unprecedented felony charges of accelerating the death of a 25-year-old disabled man to harvest his organs for transplant. The doctor denies the charges that he acted without a legitimate medical purpose, the LA Times reports, but the controversy is bad news for transplant doctors...http://www.newser.com/story/5060/transplant-doc-accused-of-quickening-patients-death.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 31 Jul 2007 17:56:54 CDT