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

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

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

Key unmet technological needs pertain to instrument size and adaptability secondary to the smaller pediatric robotic surgery market. 

This article canvasses extant literature on values, evidence, and standards for inpatient psychiatry units’ design.

This series of digital drawings considers how design influences patients’ experiences.

Dr Morgan C. Shields joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Zohra Kantawala and Dr Ramesh Raghavan: “Why Patient-Centered Built Environment Standards Matter More Than Numbers of Beds in Inpatient Psychiatry”

Research in the PED and PICU is essential to medical understanding of the efficacy of emergency interventions. Researchers must minimize the additional stress that consent and participation in research entail for pediatric patients and their families.

Many treatments are given to patients who have little to gain from them.