Doctors try new surgery for gallbladder removal

Interest in this idea heightened after doctors from India made a video in 2004 showing an appendix being taken out through a patient8217;s mouth.

The New York patient, 66, had her gallbladder removed on March 21 and is recovering well, said her surgeon Dr Marc Bessler, the director of laparoscopic surgery at Columbia University Medical Center.

Surgeons not involved in the research had mixed reactions. Dr Christine Ren, an associate professor of surgery at New York University8217;s school of medicine, called the vaginal procedure 8220;repulsive8221; and said: 8220;As a woman I find it very invasive, physically and emotionally. To me it8217;s quite distasteful.8221;