The authors have chosen to question and then to carefully examine whether laparoscopy is a better method to remove a diseased gallbladder than by means of a minilaparotomy (defined as < 8-cm incision). In these halcyon days of laparoscopy and natural-orifice surgery, they were bold enough to question which minimal operation is best for cholecystectomy—and the answers, while not surprising, are important for the larger debate now under way in America regarding methods of approach and incision. The authors have done so by carefully constructing a study to analyze both initial outcome measures (complications, length of procedure, etc) and secondary outcomes (cost, time to return to work, etc). Their study is both unique among publications as well as interesting, in that they . . . [Full Text of this Article]