World Cancer Day

๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐‚๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ซ ๐ƒ๐š๐ฒ!๐ŸŽ—๏ธ Cancer affects millions of lives, and for many, surgery is the difference between life and loss. Yet access to safe, timely cancer […]

Unfolding February

๐”๐๐…๐Ž๐‹๐ƒ๐ˆ๐๐† ๐…๐„๐๐‘๐”๐€๐‘๐˜ ๐Ÿฉท A month of compassion, science, and love, from World Cancer Day to celebrating Women and Girls in Science, and beyond. ๐Ÿฉบ๐Ÿ”ฌโœจ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  […]

Surgical Pioneer Spotlight: Dr. Edgar Rodas

๐‘บ๐’–๐’“๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ท๐’Š๐’๐’๐’†๐’†๐’“ ๐‘บ๐’‘๐’๐’•๐’๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’•: ๐‘ซ๐’“. ๐‘ฌ๐’…๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’“ ๐‘น๐’๐’…๐’‚๐’” – ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ถ๐’‘๐’†๐’“๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐‘น๐’๐’๐’Ž ๐’•๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ท๐’†๐’๐’‘๐’๐’† When mountains and poverty block access to care, one surgeon redefined […]

The Ultrasonic Scalpel โ€“ A Quiet Shift in the Operating Room

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐”๐ฅ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐œ ๐’๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ž๐ฅ โ€“ ๐€ ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ž๐ญ ๐’๐ก๐ข๐Ÿ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‘๐จ๐จ๐ฆNot every revolution in surgery arrives with noise or spectacle.Some arrive quietly, in cleaner planes, […]

2026 Tech Trends in the Operating Room

๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฒ ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ข๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฅ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’†๐’๐’๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’†๐’๐’„๐’† ๐’“๐’†๐’—๐’๐’๐’–๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’“๐’†๐’…๐’†๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’”๐’–๐’“๐’ˆ๐’†๐’“๐’š As we enter 2026, the operating room (OR) is changing. It is no […]

Happy New Year

๐ŸŽŠ ๐‡๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐˜๐ž๐š๐ซ! ๐ŸŽŠ We at ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‘๐จ๐จ๐ฆ ๐†๐ฅ๐จ๐›๐š๐ฅ, ๐‚๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐“๐ž๐š๐ฆ (๐“๐Ž๐‘๐† ๐‚๐ƒ๐“) wish every member of TORG and the general public […]

Taking a Breath – Rest, Resilience, and the Operating Room

๐ŸŒ ๐“๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ก – ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‘๐จ๐จ๐ฆ The end of the year arrives quietly in the operating room.Case lists shorten for […]