During the French-Mexican War, a poorly supplied and outnumbered Mexican army under General Ignacio Zaragoza defeats a French army attempting to capture Puebla de Los Angeles, a small town in east-central Mexico.
At least 30% to 50% of graduating general surgeons take fellowships and ultimately narrow the scope of their practices. These surgeons do not perform all the procedures that the average general surgeon does. Almost 50% of medical school graduates are women, and up to 40% of surgical residents are women as well. Here is âthe elephant in the roomâ that no one wants to talk about.
Dec. 4, 2009 -- The risk of getting a potentially deadly blood clot after surgery is even higher than experts believed -- and it persists longer than they thought, according to a new study that evaluated nearly a million women in the U.K., including nearly 240,000 who had surgery.