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Tag: clinical approach

The Beauty of Hand Surgery and My Improvements

By Jung-Pan Wang, MD, PhD Hand surgery is an amazing art, but it has been overlooked. However, as fortunate as I am, my institute, in the Orthopedics Department of Taipei Veterans General Hospital (listed in the top 15 hospitals in the world in 2016, https://gazettereview.com/2016/09/top-hospitals-in-the-world/), has been supporting the development of a robust Orthopedics Department, […]

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Response Capacity

By Jose Couceiro, MD, PhD I currently work in a 900-bed hospital in northern Spain, a government-run facility.  The main change for me has been the diminishment of our response capacity. Following the government’s anti-COIVD measures, the number of patients in clinics has been restricted. All surgical cases, except life emergencies, are required to have […]

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Menopausal Hand

By Yuichi Hirase, MD Hand surgeons know from experience that hand and finger disorders develop mainly during or after menopause, whereas clinicians often explain to patients with Heberden’s nodes or Bouchard’s nodes that the symptoms have been caused by aging or overuse, and that they cannot be cured. But hand surgeons should understand that there […]

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