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Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority data shows that healthcare clinicians' disruptive behaviors negatively affected patient care while a Pennsylvania hospital works to reduce the number of adverse events in its facility by improving teamwork HARRISBURG, Pa., June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Disruptive behavior was reported in 177 events submitted to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority from May 2007 to October 2009.

An Ethical and Clinical Exploration of the Pros & Cons of Robotic Surgery PHILADELPHIA, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Robotic surgery -- is it truly an advance for modern medicine, or just a product of slick consumer advertising campaigns and targeted marketing to physicians? Advocates say robots help surgeons perform surgery with greater access, visibility and precision all which reduce pain and blood loss, shortening hospital stays and ultimately getting patients back to work and on with their lives more quickly. Critics claim that despite its rapidly increasing growth and popularity, there isn't adequate solid scientific research to show robotic surgery is any better -- or any more effective -- of a treatment than open surgery or laparoscopic surgery. WHAT: Join us for a media seminar and expert panel to explore the pros and cons of one of the hottest and most hotly contested approaches to modern surgery -- remote and minimally invasive surgery through the use of robots --

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At approximately 2:30 pm on Monday, January 25th "Penn Medicine Team One" -- the first medical team from Penn Medicine to fly to Haiti to provide expert medical care -- departed from the Philadelphia International Airport.

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Officials of the West Penn Allegheny Health System and The Western Pennsylvania Hospital announced today the recruitment of nationally recognized burn surgeons Larry M. Jones, MD, FACS, and Roger R.