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March 30, 2008 · No Comments
Surgical Technologists at A Personal Choice Surgical technologists, also called surgical technicians, are the unsung heros of the surgical team at A Personal Choice. Patients have little interaction with them except when they are in the operating room. The surgical techs are not easily recognizable behind their surgical masks and during most of the time […]
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December 09, 2007 · No Comments
What Is Informed Consent? Informed consent means that a person has access to and understands all relevant information about a medical or surgical treatment necessary to make an informed decision about it. In the case of tubal ligation reversal, informed consent means that a person understands how it the surgery is performed, the alternative treatment […]
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December 02, 2007 · No Comments
Tubal Reversal Procedures There are 3 types of tubal reversal procedures: anastomosis – (today’s blog topic) implantation salpingostomy Anastomosis of Fallopian Tubes Anastomosis connects two body parts. Tubotubal anastomosis is connecting two segments of the fallopian tube. Tubotubal anastomosis is correct medical terminology, but it is also called tubal anastomosis for short. Bilateral tubal anastomosis […]
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November 25, 2007 · No Comments
About Me Sometimes patients ask about my background and why I became a tubal reversal doctor. (It’s a fair question, since I ask them what made them decide to have a tubal reversal.) I usually tell them about my first year after medical school when I was an intern in medicine at Duke University Hospital […]
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November 23, 2007 · No Comments
A Personal Choice Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is the only medical center exclusively for tubal ligation reversal. Patients travel from all over to have their tubal reversal procedures performed here. After surgery, each patient puts a pin in the map indicating where she is from. The map below shows that people come from all […]
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November 19, 2007 · No Comments
How Fertility is Restored Through Outpatient Tubal Reversal (Video not available at this time) This video clip comes from a Discovery Channel production featuring the tubal reversal procedure that I perform. The film crew followed Deborah and Paul Martinez as they proceeded through their tubal reversal journey. The operation was filmed in its entirety and […]
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