Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

When you go under the knife for a surgery, it's not just the surgeon who operates on your body. Surgical assistants provide critical help for complex procedures, from making minor incisions to ...

Every person who needs surgery faces many unknowns, but patients and their families count on one thing: All the members of the surgical team have the education, training and expertise to perform the ...