Medical Malpractice: Don't give in to the gadget. Distracted doctoring is the new legal minefield.

Legal Update: This transaction might be worth a tri. Hospital-corporate-physician ASC deals benefit all investors.

Regional anesthesia's economic advantages. Peripheral nerve blocks save dollars and make sense.

Infection Prevention: A superbug meets its unlikely match. Well-designed mass e-mails helped curb Acinetobacter baumannii.

Cutting Remarks: Recovery room blues. Things don't always go as planned in PACU.

Safety: Managing patients on blood thinners. Limiting bleeding risks demands a personalized approach.

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Tips for greening the operating room. Sensible steps you can take today to shrink your carbon footprint.

Ideas That Work: Recognition and reward. Share compliments (and maybe cash). Share positive feedback and reward staff with this Idea That Works from Torrance, Callifornia.

Are morcellators safe for hysterectomies? They speed the procedure, but do they spread cancer, too? See what this gynecologic surgeon has to say.

Can you pass this prepping quiz? Want to start a great debate? Ask your surgeons and nurses to defend their skin prepping preferences and beliefs.

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About my error. The orthopedic surgeon talks about his wrong procedure in order to share the lessons learned.

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Ideas That Work: Pediatric pulse ox. Let kids wear PJs for surgery. Keep a pediatric patients comfortable during surgery with this Idea That Works from Langhorne, Pennsylvania.

The business of outpatient spine. It's an attractive option when you can manage all the pieces.

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