Healthy Partners Articles
New Robot on the Block
Healthy Partners, Winter 2022
If you need surgery, Southeast Georgia Health System offers you highly
advanced options, including robotic surgery. And now, local access to
this state-of-the-art technology is expanding with the acquisition of
a new da Vinci® surgical robot. Robotic-assisted surgery allows the
surgeon to perform minimally invasive procedures with unmatched precision
and control. While seated at an adjustable console in the operating room,
the surgeon performs the surgery by controlling the robotic arms that
hold surgical instruments. They insert these instruments into incisions
much smaller than those used in traditional open surgery.
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Training Surgeons for Rural Care
Healthy Partners, Winter 2021
J. Ben Pitt, M.D., often rises before the sun, walking from Nunnally House
to the Southeast Georgia Health System Brunswick Campus to scrub in for
his first case of the day. The young surgeon-in training gains hands-on
experience under direct supervision from Vincent K. Arlauskas, M.D., thanks
to the Rural Surgery Initiative program. Dr. Pitt is the first surgeon
from the Medical College of Georgia to rotate through the surgical residency
program at the Health System.
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Delivering the Best in Breast Care
Healthy Partners, Fall 2020
Since early childhood, Vincent K. Arlauskas, M.D., knew he wanted to be
a doctor. “Every one of us has been impacted by breast cancer at
some level,” says Dr. Arlauskas. “It’s important that
women of all ages, including young adult women, know and understand the
symptoms of breast cancer in order to identify it as early as possible.”
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