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Weighing the Options

Seattle Children’s surgeons play a leading role in evaluating whether surgery is the best treatment option.
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Bettering, and Beating, the Odds

At Seattle Children’s, teams of specialists, innovative techniques and the most advanced medical technologies combine to give babies with life-threatening diaphragmatic hernias a chance to breathe, and thrive.
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Robotic Surgery

Seattle Children’s uses the da Vinci® robotic system to perform robot-assisted laparoscopy (RAL), a type of minimally invasive surgery that has benefits for patients and surgeons alike.
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Dateline: Conjoined Twins

NBC Dateline follows the story of twin girls joined at the lower half of their body and successfully separated by a team of Children’s surgeons led by Dr. John Waldhausen.
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Dateline: Conjoined Twins Update

NBC Dateline follows the story of twin girls joined at the lower half of their body and successfully separated by a team of Seattle Children’s surgeons led by Dr. John Waldhausen.
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Q-and-A with Jenny Kreiss, RN, MN, CPNP, Nurse Practitioner

Jenny talks about what it's like to work at Seattle Children’s.
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Children’s Story Project

Through the Children’s Story Project, our community shares personal experiences, memories and reflections about the hospital. Read 100 years of stories, told one person at a time.
Featured story: Tim's Hernia
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Inside the O.R.

This one-hour special takes you inside Seattle Children’s Operating Room and introduces you to children and families benefiting from the experience and skill of our nationally known pediatric surgeons.
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Pain, Pain Go Away

Seattle Children’s is using regional anesthesia to improve kids' surgical experiences by reducing their need for narcotic pain killers and by better controlling their postoperative pain and nausea.
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The Healing Touch

Seattle Children’s continues to explore new ground in pediatric medicine as we integrate nontraditional therapies into our treatment of a growing number of children.
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Q-and-A with George Drugas

Dr. Drugas talks about what he likes about working in pediatric surgery at Seattle Children’s, what drew him here and what he plans to accomplish.
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