About this reading list

One place to find the source.

surgery.healthcare is a simple link directory for people who follow surgery. It brings together journal research, professional news, useful articles, and US policy documents. Each headline opens a quick view with the original title, takeaway where supported, and a direct source link. Every item also has its own full page.

How the list is made

Public metadata is collected from Europe PMC / PubMed, the American College of Surgeons, and the Federal Register. The default “Worth your attention” view favors guidelines, clinical trials, significant policy, new technology, and compelling professional stories. It balances specialties and reduces routine case reports, correspondence, highly technical basic science, and administrative notices. “All links” keeps the full collection in publication-date order. Specialty labels use search terms and title matching; they can miss a relevant article or include an imperfect match.

Eight selected headlines have reviewed AI-assisted rewrites; other titles are shown as published. New items do not yet receive automatically generated headline rewrites. The occasional AI-generated illustration is labeled and is not a photograph of a study device or a source of clinical evidence. Titles are not endorsements. A journal record is not a quality rating, and a press release is not independent peer review. We do not generate news or turn an interesting headline into a claim of proven benefit. Brief takeaways are grounded in retrieved abstracts or official source text. Original paraphrases are labeled “Takeaway”; short, complete source sentences are quoted and labeled as excerpts. When the source does not support a useful takeaway, none is invented.

Preclinical work, small early studies, observational findings, commentary, and proposed rules are identified where the source provides enough detail. Interest labels help with browsing; they are not formal evidence grades. These short notes cannot replace reading the methods, limitations, and full source.

Dates, corrections, and access

Dates come from the source, not the day a link was added here. Research uses the first-publication date supplied by Europe PMC. Corrections and retractions may be recorded after collection, so always check the linked record before relying on a paper. Some publisher pages require a subscription.

Affiliated articles

When an approved, publicly available Herniology.com article is added, it is labeled as an affiliated publication and appears only in the main list and General surgery view. Unpublished drafts and placeholder headlines are never included. The feed contains no paid placements.

Privacy

This directory does not ask for patient information, provide a comment form, or use advertising trackers. Opening an external link takes you to another publisher, whose privacy and access rules apply. Hosting providers may collect ordinary operational logs.

This is a reading aid, not individualized medical or legal advice. Clinical decisions require appropriate professional judgment, and legal documents need to be read in their jurisdiction and current context.