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And on her 16th birthday, she went to Thailand, where they would do a genital plastic
surgery.
She also came with me when I had my
surgery
in Thailand at 19 years old.
It's interesting, in some of the most rural cities in Thailand, they perform some of the most prestigious, safe and sophisticated
surgery.
At that time in the United States, you needed to have
surgery
before you could change your name and gender marker.
PM: And yet I'm trying to imagine, Mark, what that was like, going off onto a mission, one presumes safely, but it's never a guarantee, and knowing that Gabby is — MK: Well not only was she still in the hospital, on the third day of that flight, literally while I was rendezvousing with the space station, and you've got two vehicles moving at 17,500 miles an hour, I'm actually flying it, looking out the window, a bunch of computers, Gabby was in brain surgery, literally at that time having the final
surgery
to replace the piece of skull that they took out on the day she was injured with a prosthetic, yeah, which is the whole side of her head.
Hi mom! (Laughter) She's recovering from
surgery.
There was a 16-year-old girl, she had brain surgery, and she was conscious because the surgeons wanted to talk to her.
"You guys are so funny just standing around," was the typical comment, and they weren't funny, not while doing
surgery.
The first time I stood in the operating room and watched a real surgery, I had no idea what to expect.
The first time I saw that I was watching a type of
surgery
called laparoscopic
surgery
And for those of you who are unfamiliar, laparoscopic surgery, instead of the large open incision you might be used to with surgery, a laparoscopic
surgery
is where the surgeon creates these three or more small incisions in the patient.
In 2003, the FDA actually came out and said that trocar incisions might be the most dangerous step in minimally invasive
surgery.
Again in 2009, we see a paper that says that trocars account for over half of all major complications in laparoscopic
surgery.
So this is the moment when I started thinking, okay, cranial drilling, laparoscopic surgery, why not other areas of medicine?
And if we take just three of them — laparoscopic surgery, epidurals, and cranial drilling — these procedures account for over 30,000 complications every year in this country alone.
And because this device is designed to address the physics of puncture and not the specifics of cranial drilling or laparoscopic surgery, or another procedure, it's applicable across these different medical disciplines and across different length scales.
So I was in the hospital in Athens, and the surgeon was telling me he was going to perform a laparoscopic
surgery.
So my favorite quote about laparoscopic
surgery
comes from a Doctor H. C. Jacobaeus: "It is puncture itself that causes risk."
That's my favorite quote because H.C. Jacobaeus was the first person to ever perform laparoscopic
surgery
on humans, and he wrote that in 1912.
It's a wonderful organization of people and doctors who go to developing nations to offer plastic
surgery
to those who need it.
And we think it's for all of these reasons that they take more risks with things like alcohol and drug use; crash dieting; cosmetic surgery; unprotected, earlier sex; and self-harm.
Migrants send even more money home for special occasions like a
surgery
or a wedding.
So about a week after my surgery, we had a houseguest.
So they were ecstatic, we sat down to visit, and it was so weird, because within two minutes, she started retelling me the story of her diagnosis and her
surgery
and her chemo, even though, as her chaplain, I saw her every week, and so I knew this story.
She went through
surgery
and radiation, and was on her third round of chemotherapy when she lost her address book.
If you go to your doctor because of back pain, you might want to know he's getting paid 5,000 dollars to perform spine
surgery
versus 25 dollars to refer you to see a physical therapist, or if he's getting paid the same thing no matter what he recommends.
Now, this technology has the potential to be a game-changer, because the only other solution for deafness is a cochlear implant, and that requires an invasive
surgery.
The first thing I did upon awakening from that last
surgery
was to climb out of my crib and begin wandering around the intensive care nursery, probably looking for the one who did this to me.
So we scheduled a small
surgery
for a few weeks out on a Monday.
So we kind of postponed that
surgery.
Now I was weight-bearing again, I could reschedule that surgery, get the spine out.
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