Why choose Dr. Tang?
Dr. Tang trained at two of the most intensive and high volume cancer centers in the world - Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Moffit Cancer Center. As a result, he has advanced fellowship training in robotic, laparoscopic, and open surgery for complex cancer cases and readily applies this experience to his every day practice, performing up to 100 cancer surgeries per year.
However, Dr. Tang does not believe surgery is required for every patient. Due to his training, he is well-versed in non-surgical therapy and minimally invasive options for cancer treatment. He believes in shared decision-making for all of his patients and spends the time required to inform his patients of their options. He carefully explains complicated conditions in layperson terms to ensure all of his patients fully understand their diagnosis, treatment options, plan of care, and follow-up.
If surgery is recommended, your care will be streamlined by his medical team. Dr. Tang understands that a cancer diagnosis and treatment can be very daunting and life-altering and so he does his best to ensure you have the best and most up-to-date care possible. He will personally handle every aspect of the surgery, hospital stay, and follow-up care.
Dr. Tang performs his surgeries at USMD Hospital in Arlington. This was also the first center in north Texas to offer DaVinci robotic surgery in 2003, and so the experience from start to finish has been perfected. This hospital has three DaVinci Xi robots, which are the latest and most advanced robotic systems for surgery in the market. This is also a smaller hospital and has an attentive 1:5 nurse-to-patient ratio, which has helped it achieve an overall patient satisfaction rating in the top 5% of hospitals in the nation.
When you couple a top tier hospital with Dr. Tang’s extensive surgical experience, the recovery is often very smooth. ERAS (Early Recovery After Surgery) is utilized for every patient. ERAS is a cutting-edge technique that focuses on non-narcotic pain medicine before and after surgery and early advancement of diet. This has shown to result in a faster and less painful recovery(1, 2), which in turn results in reduced hospitalization costs(3). The majority of Dr. Tang’s patients undergoing robotic or laparoscopic surgery spend only one night at the hospital and those patients typically only require a few prescription pain pills when they are home. Furthermore, most of Dr. Tang’s patients undergoing open bladder removal surgery require only 4-5 nights in the hospital compared to the traditional average of at least 7-8 days.
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