This article suggests strategies for how to disclose the nature and scope of resident surgeon involvement in managing intraoperative care.

More frequent use of robotic-assisted surgeries means we need to ask more questions about care quality and equity, informed consent, and conflicts of interest.

Telesurgery is a form of global health diplomacy, and negotiations between LMICs and HICs can have transnational consequences.

Since their adoption during the 1990s, minimally invasive surgical techniques have demonstrated postoperative surgical recovery benefits for patients. 

This comic invites readers to consider aesthetic and ethical intersections of how odds might be presented—even exaggerated—to cultivate fear in public health messaging. 

Robotic-assisted techniques demand enhanced team communication and feedback in operating room settings. 

Several factors can persuade both surgeons and patients to choose robotic surgery over open surgery or conventional laparoscopy. 

This multipaneled comic follows a woman robot preparing for a breast examination. Oil “leakage” recurs in the comic, suggesting its ethical importance in metaphorically representing a patient’s stress responses.

Before the late 20th century, overweight and obesity were not considered population-wide health risks, but the advent of weight loss drugs in the 1990s accelerated hypermedicalization via BMI use. 

In the early 20th century, the United States, as an industrialized nation with more food than ever, began to grapple with obesity.