Surgery
The first heart by-pass surgery at the hospital was performed by Philip J. Feringa, MD, who along with his team planned and studied for more than a year under leading heart surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic. St. John offers most diagnostic, surgical and non-surgical cardiac treatment available. The first laparoscopic gallbladder removal procedure in Michigan was performed by Abdel Kader Hawasli, MD in 1989 at St. John. A laparoscope is a miniature camera that projects pictures from inside the patient’s body to a video monitor. This tool requires only a very small surgical incision for procedures such as hernia repair, appendectomies, splenectomies, adrenal gland removal, colon resections, lumbar fusion and removal of spleen and liver cysts. The Transplant Specialty Center opened in 1990. In 1992, the first pancreas transplant took place. Then in 1993, the first kidney removal using a laparoscope was done, also by Dr. Hawasli. Before the end of 2000, the Transplant Specialty Center performed its 500th organ transplant.
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“Ever since surgery began, man’s destiny has been to suffer, in order that he might be cured. And no one can change that, gentlemen.”
—Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)