Via Like Cool and Holy...  ...on Neatorama) created this creepy abdominal surgery cake, which is adorned with real surgic...

The A.V. Club reminds us of 20 chilling and memora...  ...which a person with no medical training performs surgery . It's always a have-to case with no alternative,...

Before the use of ether revolutionized surgery in 1846, Dr. Robert Liston was the premiere surge...  ...t his teaching hospital in London. In those days, surgery was a last resort, patients had to be restrained,...  ...squo;s pain and improving their odds of surviving surgery ....

Former Idaho beauty queen Jamie Hilton suffered brain swelling after a devastating fall in June. Doctors removed a large chunk of her skull to allow the swelling to heal, then replaced it a few weeks later. In the meanti...

It's a story you hear every day- woman goes in to see her doctor due to rapid weight loss, and an x ray reveals that she's had a felt tip pen stuck in her stomach for the last 25 years. Here's more: On subsequent que...

Corky is a cat who was born with bilateral art...  ...ter practicing for 17 years, he had performed the surgery before on dogs, but never cats. “Dr.Burchill...  ...“Dr.Burchill is our hero…he customized the surgery for Corky,” said Ventzke. The surgery was complicat...

Last week, in a 36-hour operation, Richard Lee Nor...  ...hs have been released that show how extensive the surgery was, and so far it seems to be quite successful....  ...ake a look at the amazing life-changing work. The surgery

Sally is a 44-year-old Sumatran orangutan at the D...  ...e fired off e-mails to the team, telling them the surgery had to be done by Sunday. And they wouldn't have...  ...wouldn't have blood. "It had to be a bloodless surgery ," Boon said. "It was either this would work, or t...  ...alled LigaSure that helps...

Last year marked the 150th anniversary of the...  ...treatment. Facial Reconstruction: The Plastic Surgery Revolution Carleton Burgan of Maryland was in...  ...Buck, now considered the father of modern plastic surgery . During the war, he and other Union surgeons comp...

This story has all the makings of a wonderful ad campaign for the pen manufacturer. A woman accidentally swallowed a pen. Her husband and doctor thought that she was making the whole thing up, so nothing was done about i...