by Gary Zavoral | Aug 12, 2022
In a worldwide medical first in 1992, “a 7-foot robot called ROBODOC with nerves of steel and hands more steady than a human surgeon” assisted doctors in Sacramento, Calif., in replacing a man’s hip with an artificial joint, news service United Press International...
by Gary Zavoral | Jun 30, 2022
Dr. Zachary Visinoni, originally from Paradise, Calif., is one of nearly two-dozen newly graduated physicians comprising the inaugural group of residents at Northern California’s newest teaching hospital: Sutter Roseville Medical Center. For Dr. Visinoni, it’s been an...
by Gary Zavoral | Jun 24, 2022
The first two physicians in the federally-supported Family Medicine Rural Residency Program in Amador County are beginning their two-year residencies this week at the Sutter Family Medicine Continuity Clinic in Jackson, along with rotations at Sutter Amador Hospital....
by Gary Zavoral | Jun 19, 2022
Jonathan Judy-del Rosario of Alameda always wanted to be a father, but as a gay man he didn’t think it would be possible. Then he met Kurt del Rosario, and he wanted kids, too. “We listed with an adoption agency in August 2012 and started our journey,” Jonathan says....
by Gary Zavoral | Jun 17, 2022
William Bramhill, 11, likes to wrestle and named his practice wrestling dummy T.O.D. “T.O.D. means ‘The Other Dude,’ like, ‘You should have seen The Other Dude,’ “ he explains. So, when Sutter Surgical Hospital in Yuba City held a contest at schools throughout the...
