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Discovery Hospital's surgeries take you into the operating room during surgeries and other medical procedures.  This is the reality of medical care behind the wide, swinging doors where family members may not go. During these webcasts, doctors describe what is happening and often answer e-mailed questions.

Birth of Triplets by Cesarean Section
Look into the life of a young mother from Phoenix, AZ, whose triplets will be joining three young brothers, making a total of six children!

Hernia Surgery
Watch Keith Millikan, MD, FACS, repair an inguinal hernia on 35-year-old John, who wants his hernia repaired in order to return to his exercise routine.  Assisting in the surgery is Dr. Steven Bines, MS, MD.  The surgery is at Oak Park Hospital in Oak Park, IL.

Open Heart Surgery
Watch renowned surgeons Rene A. Arcilla, MD, and Michel N. Ilbawi, MD, of the Heart Institute for Children at Christ Hospital and Medical Center in Oak Lawn, IL, as they perform a life-saving open-heart procedure on teh tiny heart of seven-month-old Dzana, brought from war-torn Bosnia.  Dzana was born with tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital disease.

Scoliosis Surgery
Watch orthopedic surgeon John J. Regan, MD, of the Texas Back Institute perform surgery to treat the scoliosis of an athletic 30-year-old woman, to free her of the pain that has begun to limit her active lifestyle.

Angioplasty Stent
Balloon angioplasty offers new hope for some patients with heart disease, the nation's Number One killer.  Watch cardiologist Joseph Galichia, MD, FACC, of the Galichia Medical Group PA in Wichita, KS, perform this life-saving procedure and place a stent in the patient's artery.

Hip Replacement
Watch orthopedic surgeon and Discovery Hospital's medical expert Scott Oliver, MD, as he cuts away an arthritis-damaged hip joint and replaces it with an artificial one.

Keith Elias' LASIK Surgery
Watch NFL running back Keith Elias undergo LASIK, the surgery that allows thousands of people to throw away their glasses. Ophthalmologist Cary M. Silverman, MD of Parsippany EyeCare Associates is a leader among laser surgery practitioners and performs the procedure to help Elias' nearsightedness

Laparoscopic Hysterectomy
Live and online from Centennial Hospital in Nashville, James Daniell, MD, and Ted Anderson, MD, PhD, who have played a vital role in the development of Laparoscopic hysterectomy, use the technique on a 35-year-old woman. The patient, Jami, was diagnosed nine years ago with endometriosis.

Ear Surgery
Hemangioma Removal - Rare surgery simulcast on Discovery Hospital's Ask the Family Doctor and The Discovery Hospital.com

Knee Replacement Surgery
Video cameras take you into the operating room as orthopedic surgeon Richard Cohen, MD performs a total knee replacement surgery.

Spinal Cord Stimulator
Watch as orthopedic surgeon Ralph Rashbaum, MD, co-founder of the Texas Back Institute, places a spinal cord stimulation system into the back of 56-year-old Billy to help control disabling pain.

Brain Aneurysm Surgery
Surgery to repair a brain aneurysm is delicate.  Julian Bailes, MD, does the surgery, and Discovery Hospital's Walt Larimore hosts during this re-broadcast of a live event.

Brain Surgery Live
Watch Nashville neurosurgeon Paul R. McCombs, MD, and Rex Arendall, MD, perform a craniectomy to remove a benign tumor from their patient's brain.

Live At The Vet
Watch a rebroadcast of A Visit to the Vet and see first hand what happens to your pet at the vet.

Trauma Center
Discovery Hospital.com puts you in the middle of the Emergency Room at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston, TX.

ACL Surgery
Discovery Hospital.com followed one of America's leading experts on ACL, Dr. Richard Steadman of the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic in Vail, CO through the procedure used to threat what used to be called "Trick Knee."

Mission Health
Discovery Hospital.com brought you live video updates on John Glenn and health experiments throughout the nine day mission!

Live LASIK Surgery
Watch a rebroadcast of Dr. Rob Danoff as he followed Dr. Charles Moore of the International EyeCare Laser Vision Center - Houston, through the first live, online Hyperopic LASIK to treat farsightedness.

Hair Restoration Surgery
Cameras followed Dr. Jack Fisher - from start to finish, without interruption - as he performed micro- and mini-graft hair restoration at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, TN. Discovery Hospital's own Dr. Walt Larimore hosted the event.

What Is Bothering You?
Explore the link between emotional and physical health in the rebroadcast of this Internet-exclusive event. Host Dave Erickson and guests sex therapist Michael Freeny, LCSW and Gitane, PhD (also known as the "Love Doctor") discuss life, love and relationships.

Open Heart Live
Discovery Hospital.com followed a patient through open heart surgery - from beginning to end - live, without interruption. Watch renowned surgeon Denton Cooley, MD perform open heart surgery in this rebroadcast.

Live Microdiscectomy
Back pain is considered America's number one complaint.  Discovery Hospital and Texas Back Institute take the mystery out of a surgery that alleviates the pain of herniated discs, discectomy.

Medical Response
Presented by the US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense on Discovery Hospital.com,