After semitrailer crash, a trucker receives life-changing brain tumor diagnosis and 'awake' operation
After Donald Schwartz's semitrailer crashed, doctors performed brain surgery on him while he was awake to remove a cancerous tumor.
Three patients share their journeys to heart-liver-kidney triple-organ transplants
Since UChicago Medicine's historic back-to-back triple-organ transplants in December 2018, their teams have performed another four heart-liver-kidney transplants. Meet three of the four new multi-organ transplant recipients.
Study questions strategy of asking patients to self-report their physical fitness before surgery
Asking patients to self-report their physical fitness is a common strategy to see if they are healthy enough to undergo surgery. A new study from UChicago questions that approach.
