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Surgery

Getting you out of the hospital better, not just faster, is the singular focus of the WPAHS surgical programs.

With some of the world's top surgeons and innovators on staff, WPAHS continues its leadership in developing surgical methods which minimize pain and healing time, offer new solutions to chronic ailments, and use new medical technologies to greatly enhance the surgeon's precision and efficacy.

Our surgeons are leaders in the use of surgical implants to perform a host of functions, from relieving a distressed heart, to calming the tremors of neurological disorders, to delivering chemotherapy much more efficiently.

They also are advancing the techniques of minimally invasive surgery to more regions of the body for a broadening list of ailments, and pioneering the use of robotics in the operating room, a technology which is may lift surgery to a new plateau.

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