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r/surgery

45k members
r/surgery is a subreddit with 45k members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is large in size.
This is a community for healthcare professionals to discuss surgery and related topics. This subreddit is NOT for medical advice.

Popular Themes in r/surgery

#1
Advice Requests
: "What's the chances of a bullet going through mine upper chest and ended up in the bottom of my gut 12 years later I wonder if that's normal? I'm glad I survived but any thoughts"
33 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Broke my arm"
8 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "What to buy for residency?!?"
5 posts
#4
News
: "World's first "nonstop beating heart" transplant is a medical breakthrough: « For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never skips a beat in the process, reducing the damage that can occur during such a complex operation. »"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/surgery

#1

Surgery

: "Couldn’t be happier after my recent Bariatric Surgery! Finally living my best life!"
74 posts
#2

Laparoscopic

: "Laparoscopic appendectomy - bellybutton "
5 posts
#3

Laparoscopic Surgery

4 posts
#4

Pain

: "Laparoscopic Wedge Resection of a GIST Tumor. I’m on suboxone so I got to feel all the Pain afterwards until they pushed Ketamine. Felt like a clothing iron was sitting on my stomach. Surgical team was awesome. "
3 posts
#5

Suture

: "Suture critique"
3 posts
#6

Surgeons

: "Surgeons, what sterile equipment or body part have you dropped during surgery? What happens next?"
3 posts
#7

Surgeon

: "What’s the weirdest or most inappropriate thing you’ve heard a Surgeon talk about mid-surgery?"
3 posts
#8

Sutures

: "Are my Sutures good? Practiced more and followed the advice that yall gave "
2 posts
#9

Procedure

: "Have you used a needle guide for percutaneous Procedures?"
2 posts
#10

Medication

: "Post aneurysm surgery med question "
2 posts

Member Growth in r/surgery

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+4k members(9.5%)

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