Surgical performance begins well before the operating room, with the choice made in the clinic of whether to operate in the first place.

NEWYORKER: Personal Best

The surgical team took her straight to the operating room and crashed her onto heart-lung bypass.

NEWYORKER: The Checklist

So why did I find it inconceivable to pay someone to come into my operating room and coach me on my surgical technique?

NEWYORKER: Personal Best

We changed into scrubs and Alleyn took me through the sixteen operating rooms to show me the laparoscopy suite, with its flat-screen video monitors, the hybrid operating room with built-in imaging equipment, the surgical robot for minimally invasive robotic surgery.

NEWYORKER: The Cost Conundrum