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League Of Women Voters Of Palm Beach County

To Host ‘Hot Topic Lunch’

On School Year 2024 With and vice president. He also serves on
Palm Beach County (PBC) the Governance Board and the Goals
and Budget Committee of the Florida
School Superintendent Education Association, as well as the
Government Relations Committee.
Michael Burke And Gordon One topic of discussion will be the
proposed half-cent tax increase that
Longhofer, PBC Classroom would take place in 2026, after the full

Teachers Association President penny sales tax expires next year.
If approved by voters, these funds
will help purchase, maintain, and repair/
The League of Women Voters of Palm Beach County refurbish facilities and equipment to
(LWVPBC) is inviting residents and parents to an upcoming create a positive learning environment
lunch event focused on local education, including the for Palm Beach County students. All
proposed half-cent sales tax increase on the November ballot district-operated and charter schools in
and how it would benefit our local public education system. Palm Beach County will benefit from
Wednesday, Sept. 18, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. this measure.
Hot Topic Discussion, In-Person Where: Hilton Palm Beach Airport,
School Year 2024 150 Australian Avenue, West Palm
The State of Education in Palm Beach County Beach, FL 33406
• Guest Speaker: Michael Burke Registration Fee: $40
As the superintendent of the high-performing School Notes:
District of Palm Beach County, he is passionate about • Doors open at 11 a.m. Lunch
ensuring academic excellence and paving the way to post- begins at 11:30 a.m., the program
graduate success for the more than 170,000 students who starts at noon.
attend 182 district-operated schools. He is deeply committed • Advance registrations and
to the School Board’s mission to educate, affirm, and inspire payment must be made online at
each student in an equity-embedded school system. As www.lwvpbc.org.
superintendent of the tenth-largest district in the nation, • Walk-ins cannot be accommodated.
Burke also oversees Palm Beach County’s largest workforce The fee is nonrefundable.
of nearly 23,000 people. • The deadline to register is Sept. 6.
• Guest Speaker: Gordon Longhofer The League of Women Voters of
As president of the Palm Beach County Classroom Palm Beach County is a nonpartisan
Teachers Association, he represents more than 13,000 political organization of women and
teachers. He began teaching in 1983 in Oklahoma and men of all ages and backgrounds,
has been here since 1988, teaching math and vocal encouraging informed and active
music at Pahokee Middle High School for 18 years. His participation in government through education and For more information about the League of Women Voters
wife, oldest son, and daughter-in-law are also teachers. advocacy. The League of Women Voters of the United of Palm Beach County, please visit lwvpbc.org or facebook.
Longhofer has been an advocate for teachers as a union States believes that voting is a fundamental citizen right com/lwvpbc.
representative, board member, negotiations team member, that must be guaranteed.

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SPOTLIGHT ON HEALTH CARE By Sue MacDonald

Robotic Surgery Targets Common

Gynecological Cancers Among Women

The same robotic technologies that al- It’s like a car —the driver has to turn it
low cardiac specialists to perform del- on, steer it, speed it up, clutch it, and
icate surgeries inside the human heart stop it to get from Point A to Point B.
and send hip replacement patients The robotic capabilities allow us to be
home the same day with new artificial more delicate with tissues so there’s less
joints are offering similarly profound trauma, less disruption, shorter down
benefits for women experiencing gyne- time and less pain.”
cological cancers.
Robotic instruments also allow sur-
Whether they are diagnosed with cer- geons to access hard-to-reach tumors
vical or ovarian cancer, or facing a hys- and cancers, including those that are
terectomy because of uterine/endome- recurring or have invaded nearby tissue.
trial cancer, women can experience less
invasive surgeries with less blood loss The benefit for patients: less blood loss
and quicker recoveries thanks to the during surgery and quicker recoveries/
presence of robotic surgical systems in view of the surgical field, compared to “The DaVinci platform allows for the healing for gynecologic cancers and
the operating suite, says Dr. Michael traditional laparoscopic surgery.” surgeon’s right eye and left eye to have lung cancer.
Worley Jr., a women’s cancer specialist actual depth perception and greater
at Jupiter Medical Center’s Anderson Jupiter Medical Center’s cancer special- dexterity than laparoscopic surgery,”
Family Cancer Institute. ists and surgeons deploy the DaVinci 5 he notes, “and it increases the types of
robotic surgery platform at The Johnny complex surgeries we can do robotically
Some women, in fact, are sent home the & Terry Gray Surgical Institute, which because it improves our vision.”
same day after a hysterectomy, thanks opened in late 2023.
to the precision and minimally invasive Robotic-surgery instruments also mim-
nature of robotic surgery. Technology beyond laparoscopy ic the more fluid movements of human
hands and wrists, compared with lap-
“Since the beginning of robotics as the Robotic surgery’s benefit is that is pro- aroscopic instruments that tend to be
platform on which minimally invasive vides better visual acuity and manual more rigid, he explains.
surgeries have evolved, the optics and dexterity for surgeons as they operate,
dexterity for surgeons have improved, explains Dr. Worley. Laparoscopy in- “Cancer-based surgeries that used to be
resulting in better patient outcomes,” volves manipulating tiny surgical in- done only through open surgery can
says Worley. “Robotic surgery has al- struments through small incisions on now be done robotically,” notes Dr.
lowed us to do significantly more com- the patient’s abdomen to the exact spot Worley. “And it’s important to point Michael J. Worley, Jr, MD
plex procedures but through smaller where surgery is performed, whether out that the robot doesn’t do anything
incisions. These new surgical systems doctors are removing a defective ovary autonomously. It’s not a robot doing For information about robotic surgery
provide binocular vision, which allows or an entire uterus. surgery. The instruments are really and capabilities at Jupiter Medical Center,
for depth perception and an improved extension of what we do as surgeons. visit jupitermed.com/robotics.
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