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Surgery

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Surgery.

Video playlists about Surgery

The future of surgery

Exciting innovations and advancements that demonstrate how going under the knife is becoming a safer, clearer and more efficient process for all.

Talks about Surgery

Jason Hoellwarth

How does leg lengthening surgery work?

Jason Hoellwarth

What should you do if you accidentally cut off your finger?

Jenell Johnson

One of the most controversial medical procedures in history

Alexander Toledo

How does kidney transplant surgery work?

David Flum

What does appendix pain feel like?

Max Levy

One surgeon's obsession with head transplants

The miracle of organ donation — and a breakthrough for the future

Roni Shanoada

How does heart transplant surgery work?

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Exclusive articles about Surgery

How one kidney donation can lead to a chain of 94 transplants (and counting!)

A kidney donation chain could narrow the huge gap between organ supply and demand. Kidney matchmaker and transplant surgeon Jayme Locke explains how.

Posted Jun 2018

The most critical factor in medicine? Human bias

Oncologist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Siddhartha Mukherjee explains why doctors aren't so much looking for disease as bias in their work.

Posted Oct 2015

So many introverts, and other insights of the week

Community responses to an introversion poll inspired by Susan Cain, a comment on Nikolai Begg's description of a tool to fix one of the most dangerous moments in surgery, and a giddy post about a mid-career sabbatical motivated by Stefan Sagmeister's talk.

Posted Jul 2014

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