Briefs
By Daily Bruin Staff
Feb. 3, 2003 9:00 p.m.
UCLA will host symposium on health
care
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA will present a
health care symposium entitled “The Business of Medicine:
Challenges to Professionalism” on Saturday, Feb. 8, from 9-12
a.m. in Covel Commons.
The symposium will include a keynote address by Dr. Jordan
Cohen, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges,
and a panel discussion by experts on the topic. The symposium will
address the ever-increasing business pressures in medicine in
relation to the ability of the physician to act both professionally
and ethically.
Admission to the symposium is free and includes breakfast and
lunch. Please go to www.medstudent.ucla.edu/msocal/2003/ to find
out more about the symposium and to register.
Surgeon experience impacts success of
prostatectomies
The experience of a surgeon has a significant impact on
complications and length of hospital stays for men age 65 and older
receiving a prostatectomy, according to a UCLA study.
A prostatectomy is a common procedure to remove the prostate
gland in men.
Medicare data showed that low-volume surgeons had twice the
in-hospital complication rate of high-volume surgeons.
Studies were done on 2,292 men age 65 and older who underwent
prostatectomies in 1997 or 1998.
Research has focused on the impact of hospital and surgeon
volume on patient mortality, but not on procedures like
prostatectomy with low mortality rates.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the US
and the second most common cause of cancer-related death.
