Surgeries

The spread of Social Media Surgeries has to date been largely an urban phenomenon.

Taking Twitter to the tractors at the Great Yorkshire Show 2011

Social Media Surgeries are a phenomenon which has swept the country over the past two years.

Taking Twitter to the tractors at the Great Yorkshire Show 2011

Read the WSJ's Previous Article About Dr. Makker Medicare Records Reveal Troubling Trail of Surgeries Providence Portland Medical Center revoked Vishal James Makker 's surgical privileges last week following a March 29 article in The Wall Street Journal that identified Dr. Makker as having the highest rate of multiple spinal-fusion surgeries among 3,407 surgeons who performed the procedure on 20 or more Medicare patients in 2008 and 2009.

Hospital Bars Surgeon From Operating Room John Carreyrou 2011

I've done lots of Social Media Surgeries, but this one is extra special.

Taking Twitter to the tractors at the Great Yorkshire Show 2011

Surgeries to his knees and the chronic pain that followed had limited him to 145 games over the 2009 and 2010 seasons and changed the conversation about his true value to the Mets 26-30.

Beltran's More Than an Empty Shirt Mike Sielski 2011

As a retired spine surgeon, I suspect that the authors of the article " Secrets of the System: Medicare Records Reveal Troubling Trail of Surgeries " page one, March 29 are barking up the right tree.

Surgery Should Only Be for the Benefit of the Patient 2011

Related Article Medicare Records Reveal Troubling Trail of Surgeries Using a Medicare hospital billing database, the Journal pulled all of the records of patients who had one or more spinal fusions in 2008 and 2009.

How the Journal Crunched the Numbers 2011

Surgeries were a minimum $5,000 bill, and the Swifts had already seen their dog suffer using just three legs - every time he lifted a leg to go to the bathroom, he would fall over.

WATCH: Prosthetic Paw Lets Dog Walk Again After Being Run Over By Car The Huffington Post 2011

Cosmetic Surgeries Rise Top five surgical cosmetic procedures for women, by number of procedures

Cosmetic Procedures Rebound Stephanie Gleason 2011

"And, most importantly, the "geek-speak" is kept to a minimum, the Surgeries are about helping people who are often making first nervous forays into the world of social media to find a voice with which to communicate with the people they aim to serve."

Taking Twitter to the tractors at the Great Yorkshire Show 2011