Dr. Joon Shim
Bassett Healthcare Network has announced that it is expanding its services to see technologically precocious robotic assisted Roux-en-Y gastric bypass country arsenic a weight-loss country option.
Dr. Joon Shim, Attending Surgeon & Program Director, General Surgery Residency Program, precocious performed Bassett’s archetypal country of this type. Dr. Shim is an adept successful minimally invasive and trauma surgery.
“Robotic assisted country is simply a instrumentality that enables surgeons to marque adjacent smaller incisions resulting successful faster recovery, little postoperative pain, and shorter infirmary stays,” offered Dr. Shim.
“Rural patients merit the aforesaid options disposable successful ample municipality areas.”
“At Bassett, expanding our capabilities to bring the astir effectual technologies to our patients is halfway to our mission,” said Dr. Tommy Ibrahim, President and CEO of Bassett Healthcare Network. “I applaud Dr. Shim and the full bariatric squad for advancing the attraction of our patients.”
“I decided to execute Bassett’s archetypal robotic assisted Roux-en-Y gastric bypass country due to the fact that I wanted to supply our patients with the astir technologically precocious minimally invasive surgery. Our system’s robotic arms supply 7 degrees of freedom,” explained Dr. Shim. “The console provides a three-dimensional presumption of the surgical tract with precocious explanation and magnification of 10 times to what the quality oculus sees.”
“We tin innovate successful agrarian hospitals and amended the outcomes of our patients with fantabulous results,” continued Dr. Shim.
“Robotic platforms enactment minimally invasive procedures associated with little corruption rates, faster recoveries, little postoperative pain, and accrued diligent satisfaction. Post-operative narcotic usage successful robotic procedures is astoundingly low. As a substance of fact, a caller robotic gastric bypass diligent took lone Tylenol portion recovering. Our exceptional squad volition proceed to enactment unneurotic to guarantee the occurrence of the robotic assisted gastric bypass program.”
Bassett’s bariatric country squad has received prime designation for diligent information and amended outcomes, including the Blue Distinction Center+ for Bariatric Surgery by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, and accreditation by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP).
Dr. Shim, MD, MPH, is an adept connected minimally invasive and trauma surgery. She served arsenic an active-duty Army surgeon for 4 years and completed 2 tours arsenic a combat trauma surgeon successful Afghanistan. Dr. Shim was awarded the Army Meritorious Service Medal. She earned some her aesculapian grade and her master’s grade successful nationalist wellness from George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She completed her residency successful wide country astatine the University of Massachusetts, and a fellowship successful minimally invasive country and bariatric country astatine Brown University.
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