Expert Commentary

My response to ACOG’s emphasis on vaginal hysterectomy first

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AAGL President Arnold P. Advincula also comments on how AAGL needs to avoid the use of commercially driven innovation (and what that means) and describes his vision for AAGL for the next 10 years


 

Recorded November 17, 2015, at the AAGL Global Congress in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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