I was recently asked to complete a survey into the “pain of laparoscopic surgery”. The authors were interested in the pain experienced by surgeons who perform laparoscopic surgery. This started me thinking about a subject that I have often discussed with trainee surgeons under my care; that is the ergonomics of laparoscopic surgery. For those…
As recently as 1987 whilst a registrar at King George V Hospital working under Professor Robert Jansen who founded Genea, initially as Sydney IVF, I had the pleasure of being involved with some of his laparoscopic surgery for endometriosis. At that time he published a paper illustrating the myriad appearances that endometriosis may have. Around…
In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two Pittsburgh banks and robbed them in broad daylight with no visible attempts at disguise. He was arrested later that night, less than an hour after video tapes of him were taken from surveillance cameras were broadcast on the eleven o’clock news. When police later showed him the surveillance…