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How Do I Care for My Incision?

For Patients

So you are about to have a surgery, and you will have an incision.  What should you expect?  How do you care for the area?  And what are the do’s and don’t of incision care?  Obviously you should check in with my team, and by no means is this all the possible recommendations, but hopefully […]

  Over the years, there are many questions that seem to come up frequently. My incredible nurse practitioner Denise Lally-Goss and I have compiled a list of our top questions to help provide some general guidance and thoughts.  Obviously these are general recommendations, and by no means do they apply to everyone in every circumstance!  […]

Scrubs.  Those colorful cloth pajamas that everyone dons when entering the hallowed sanctuary of the operating room environment.  They are meant to allow the care provider to create one extra layer of barrier between the bugs and dirt of the outside world and the hermetically controlled environment of the operating suites.  And, quite frankly, it […]

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