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A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Surgery.

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The future of surgery

Exciting innovations and advancements that demonstrate how going under the knife is becoming a safer, clearer and more efficient process for all.

Talks about Surgery

How does heart transplant surgery work?

Hyunsoo Joshua No

Performing brain surgery without a scalpel

How does laser eye surgery work?

Christer Mjåset

4 questions you should always ask your doctor

Ancient Rome's most notorious doctor

The fascinating science of phantom limbs

Want to get great at something? Get a coach

Nadine Hachach-Haram

How augmented reality could change the future of surgery

Peter Weinstock

Lifelike simulations that make real-life surgery safer

Franz Freudenthal

A new way to heal hearts without surgery

The brain may be able to repair itself -- with help

What happens when you remove the hippocampus?

A tool to fix one of the most dangerous moments in surgery

Mary Lou Jepsen

Could future devices read images from our brains?

Steven Schwaitzberg

A universal translator for surgeons

Meet your microbes

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Exclusive articles about Surgery

How one kidney donation can lead to a chain of 94 transplants (and counting!)

A kidney donation chain could narrow the huge gap between organ supply and demand. Kidney matchmaker and transplant surgeon Jayme Locke explains how.

Posted Jun 2018

The most critical factor in medicine? Human bias

Oncologist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Siddhartha Mukherjee explains why doctors aren't so much looking for disease as bias in their work.

Posted Oct 2015

So many introverts, and other insights of the week

Community responses to an introversion poll inspired by Susan Cain, a comment on Nikolai Begg's description of a tool to fix one of the most dangerous moments in surgery, and a giddy post about a mid-career sabbatical motivated by Stefan Sagmeister's talk.

Posted Jul 2014

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