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Surgery

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

Video playlists about Surgery

The future of surgery

7 talks • 1h 31m

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

Peter Weinstock

Lifelike simulations that make real-life surgery safer

Posted Mar 2017

Franz Freudenthal

A new way to heal hearts without surgery

Posted Sep 2016

Jocelyne Bloch

The brain may be able to repair itself — with help

Posted Feb 2016

Nikolai Begg

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

Posted Jul 2014

Mary Lou Jepsen

Could future devices read images from our brains?

Posted Mar 2014

Steven Schwaitzberg

A universal translator for surgeons

Posted Jan 2013

Jonathan Eisen

Meet your microbes

Posted Jul 2012

Tal Golesworthy

How I repaired my own heart

Posted Apr 2012

Erica Frenkel

The universal anesthesia machine

Posted Feb 2012

Sheila Nirenberg

A prosthetic eye to treat blindness

Posted Dec 2011

Quyen Nguyen

Color-coded surgery

Posted Dec 2011

Anthony Atala

Printing a human kidney

Posted Mar 2011

Iain Hutchison

Saving faces: A facial surgeon's craft

Posted Feb 2011

Exclusive articles about Surgery

The most critical factor in medicine? Human bias

Oncologist and writer Siddhartha Mukherjee suggests that what doctors fight against isn’t so much disease — it’s their own biases. In the summer of 2003, I finished my three-yea...

So many introverts, and other insights of the week

Each week, we collect tantalizing ideas in response to TED Talks. This week brought us the results of a TED community poll inspired by Susan Cain (TED Talk: The power of introve...

11 biomaterials that can heal the human body. Including, yes, biting ants.

Biomaterials are substances — synthetic or natural — that can be used to improve health, minimize suffering and improve or correct the way the body works. A suture? That’s a bio...