Fw: Dr. Kurt Semm, Founder Of Laparoscopic Surgery, Dies at 76

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This was sent to me from another group.....thought it was interesting from a medical history point of view.

I know I like this guy.....I only got 4 little tiny scars from my gallbladder surgery compared to a kid I know who had his gallbladder surgery just last year.....and he has a scar from his right side clear across his stomach!

Tonia

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Dr. Kurt Semm, whose pioneering techniques in minimally invasive surgery were intially ridiculed but led to innovations in many types of operations, died on July 16 at his home in Tuson, Ariz. He was 76.The cause was complications of a Parkinson's Disease, his family said.The 1990's , Dr. Dr. Semm, a gynecologist and engineer, began workingon laparoscopic surgery, in which no large incision is made. Instead,several tiny incisions are made to insert a scope and instruments. Such operations can greatly reduce costs and the patient's recovery period. "Someday in the future, people will look back at a regular surgical incision as something archaic and barbaric, " Dr. A. Wetter, chairman of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, said Friday. " We have Kurt Semm, who worked in fertility, developed intruments that allowed the uterus to be manipulated without making large incisions in the abdominal wall. He was helped by his father and brother, who owned the medical instrument company Wisap, Grzegorz S. Litynski wrote in the July-September 1998 issue of The Journal Society of Laparoendsopic Surgeons.Dr. Semm is survived by his wife, Dr. Iseult O'Neil, 1994; a daughter,Tara Virginia: son, : and a brother, Horst.I found this article in the New York Time today, for further reading please go to New York Times.com

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