Dr. Reich Keeps His Word for ARD Awareness

Dr. Reich keeps his word for ARD Education and Awareness as 2006 President of the ISGE! THIS IS ON THE ISGE Website! http://www.isge.org/nshowp.php?pid=136
LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY FOR ADHESIOLYSIS Harry Reich, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., FACS Postoperative adhesions occur after almost every abdominal surgery and are the leading cause of intestinal obstruction. Over 90% of patients undergoing abdominal operations will develop postsurgical adhesions. This was not considered surprising, given the extreme delicacy of the peritoneum and the fact that apposition of two injured surfaces nearly always results in adhesion formation.1 For the surgeon, laparoscopic lysis of bowel adhesions is fraught with danger to his/her reputation as bad results often are accompanied by poor reimbursement and lawsuits. This surgery is not for every surgeon...MORE: http://www.isge.org/nshowp.php?pid=136
PLUS: Message from President of ISGE: http://www.isge.org/nshowp.php?pid=135
Dear members,
I welcome the opportunity to serve as the president of ISGE. Fortunately, this is a two year term as the first 6 months have been a time consuming learning experience. I thank my board for bearing with me. I hope to accomplish my major goals over the next 18 months.
My goals for this year are as follows:
· Make the website user friendly, including a chat line and monthly updates on controversial areas in our specialty, flavored by many opinions.
· Increase membership.
· Increase patient access to our membership.
· Work more closely with AAGL, ESGE, APAGE, AGES, and SLS.
· Encourage and recognize Centers of Excellence for patient referral for difficult cases
.· Promote reusable instruments for advanced laparoscopic surgery.
· Promote public awareness that robotics are rarely advantageous in gynecologic surgery.
· Support courses in the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Eastern Europe including Russia, and China.
I have operated in many different parts of the world teaching endoscopic surgery over the past 20 years. The drive for gynecologic endoscopy is very much alive worldwide. I believe it is time for the ISGE to play a leading role in gynecologic endoscopic surgery worldwide, both the surgery and the politics. We need to form a World Federation of International Societies of Gynecologic Endoscopy. (The general surgeons already have their laparoscopic world federation. And few of them can operate without expensive disposable instruments.)
ISGE meetings under the direction of one of the worlds best laporoscopic surgeons....
14th annual congress in London, April 2005,
9th regional meeting in Mumbai, September 2007
15th annual meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March, 2006.
10th Regional meeting in Beijing, China, September,2007
ISGE annual meeting in Osaka, Japan, 2007
ISGE regional meeting in Munich, Germany, October, 2007
Is Dr. Harry Reich the best laporoscopic surgeon in the world, he would answer "no" to that question and tell you that Mario Malzoni of Italy is, however, Dr. Reich stands among the very few top laporoscopic surgeons in the world, and those surgeons who stand with him offer the best chance of securing wellness from adhesion symptoms, but do you know where to find these surgeons? IHRT knows and we will tell you!