surgery
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You No Longer Need Surgery to Be Diagnosed with Endometriosis, Here’s What’s Changed
By age 44, endometriosis affects around one in nine women and people assigned female at birth in Australia. It’s caused by the presence of tissue similar to the lining of the uterus found outside the uterus. While endometriosis is most commonly found in the pelvic cavity, it can sometimes be found in the diaphragm, lungs…
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Ask Your Doctor These Four Questions About Any Treatment
Your doctor recommends a thing, and you do it. That’s the simplest version of how the doctor-patient relationship might go, but it’s not always the best one. You may find out later that there were other options for treatment that you never knew about, or that the drug you took has risks that may outweigh…
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How Anaesthesia Works, And Why It’s So Complicated
There’s a lot more to “going under” than just counting down from 10 and then waking up when the surgery is over, although it’s great we can do that. Here’s how anaesthesia affects you, and what makes it risky enough for your doctor to warn you about it before surgery