Piedmont Atlanta Hospital lets gynecologists use laparoscopic power morcellators with informed consent from patients. In the same city, Emory Healthcare has halted use of the gynecological cutting tools, which regulators have warned can spread hidden cancers, in its hospitals.
The contrast underscores a debate simmering five years after the Food and Drug Administration first advised against using morcellators, which until then were widely used in minimally invasive hysterectomies and to remove uterine growths called fibroids....
RealDoctorMike thoughts?
well, we are talking about male dominated hospital administration spending money on new technologies to take care of WOMEN, mere women......so who the hell cares? now if this old technology was being used on men, it might be time to consider a change, right guys?
If men were the patients, would the risks have been given greater weight? Just askin'.
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