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“Tiny Tools, Big Relief: Laparoscopic Surgery”

Let’s talk about something real. For generations, hysterectomy felt like punishment—like a quiet tax women paid for simply existing in their bodies.

But in 1988, a different story started. Dr. Harry Reich looked at the uterus and thought, “Why not less?” Less pain. Less blood. Less scarring. More kindness. More recovery. More power in the woman’s hands.

That’s when the laparoscopic hysterectomy was born. Small cuts. A camera. Big freedom.

Now, here we are—decades later—with choices that didn’t exist for our mothers or grandmothers.