I can’t believe this is happening." A Texas surgeon was performing surgery when she received an unexpected call from the ...

A DIEP flap surgery reconstruction is a type of abdominal wall flap procedure. The DIEP — or deep inferior epigastric perforator — flap is named for the blood vessel that runs through the ...

A surgeon in Austin, Texas, was in the operating room with a patient when a call came in from the patient’s insurance provider, UnitedHealthcare. She returned the call and shared the story.

(In DIEP flap surgery reconstruction, skin, fat and blood vessels from the patient's abdominal area are used to rebuild breasts.) During one of the DIEP cases, while the patient was asleep on the ...