It's your surgeon's turn to say 'open wide'

November 30, 2008 By Maura Lerner

Dr. Christopher Gostout remembers the first time he heard anyone suggest such a thing. He was in a roomful of doctors at a seaside resort, brainstorming about the future. Perform surgery without piercing the skin? Take out someone's appendix through the mouth?

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