In this month's cover story, contributing editor Dianne Taylor presents a fascinating look at how such inpatient cases as abdominal hysterectomy, spinal surgery and mastectomy are turning into outpatient ones. Dianne's report of how increasingly complex procedures are migrating to ASCs begins on page 34.
What you won't find there is how to add minimally invasive breast biopsies to your surgical profile - not because stereotactic breast biopsy doesn't belong in the outpatient setting, but because we thought it wise to temper our enthusiasm with a story of how things can go terribly wrong when you add a new procedure.
