PodMed – Week of October 30, 2017
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This week’s topics include health and wealth, gun show sales and gun injury, management of epilepsy, and outcomes relative to robotic surgery. Program notes: 0:34 Today is last PodMed 1:19 Epilepsy management 2:19 Not a single type of surgery 3:16 Identify the focus 3:30 Robotic surgery outcomes 4:30 Is it that much better? 5:31 Instruments […]
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