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Telemedicine has gained significant importance because of the coronavirus pandemic. Before COVID-19 hit, most surgeons were not considering remote visits an option due to the concerns about HIPAA compliance and poor reimbursement. As soon as the pandemic came into the picture, hospitals and health systems were asked to postpone all non-essential surgical procedures by the U.S. surgeon general and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. It made the...

In the United States, women awaiting liver transplants are about one-third more likely than men to become so ill that they can’t be operated upon or even die before the transplant. According to a cohort study that focused on 1,405 adults (out of which 578 were women and 827 were men) suffering from cirrhosis and awaiting liver transplant without hepatocellular carcinoma, researchers tried to find out if frailty was a cause for the difference between wom...