Comparison of Outcomes of Antibiotic Drugs and Appendectomy (CODA) Trial: What you need to know
Written by Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel The short-term results of the CODA...
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Unusual Cases Part 7: Growing Hair…and a Guidewire
Written by Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel I Can’t Stomach This One An...
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Non-Physician Hospital CEO Cut after Participating in Surgery
Last week on Twitter I asked this question: The 130 (2.5%) of 5,213 respondents who said they...
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How to Get Around a State’s Cap on Pain and Suffering
Written by Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel Since 1975, California has had a...
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Covid Times Get Stranger and Stranger
After learning that several players on the Miami Marlins baseball team had tested positive for the...
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Acute appendicitis: Will a novel endoscopic “organ-sparing” approach change the treatment paradigm?
by Skeptical Scalpel, Physician’s Weekly Top Blogger Will a novel endoscopic “organ-sparing”...
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Unusual cases Part 6: Surviving Bizarre Perforations
by Skeptical Scalpel, Physician’s Weekly Top Blogger One patient, two complications A...
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Worst Ever COVID-19 Screening Idea for Airports
Written by Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel In a June 3rd Washington Post article...
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The Skeptical Scalpel Awards
Written by Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel Now for something completely...
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Update: Mortality rate of COVID-19 patients on ventilators
Data released on May 8 by the UK’s Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC)...
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How not to wear a mask
Written by Skeptical Scalpel, Physician’s Weekly Blogger Your wife wants her underwear back....
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CPR in COVID-19 Patients Has a Low Survival Rate
The overall 30-day survival rate for COVID-19 patients receiving CPR was 4 (2.9%) patients, but...
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Mortality rate of COVID-19 patients on ventilators
Written by Physician’s Weekly Blogger, Skeptical Scalpel Although at the time I wrote this...
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Barbecue grill brush bristles found in odd places
With spring almost here, it’s time to start barbecuing again. It may be one of our few diversions...
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Long-term follow-up of antibiotics for appendicitis: Shocking but expected results
After a median follow-up of 7 years, 39% of patients who underwent treatment of uncomplicated...
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Unusual cases part 5: Don’t put your feet on the dashboard
The Daily Mail reported a woman in Wales had her feet on the dashboard when the car she was riding...
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Doctors without scruples
by Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel A pregnant 28-year-old Bakersfield, California...
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Nobel Prize winner insults all doctors
by Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel At the annual meeting of the American...
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Doctor sues former hospital for defamation
Dr. William Husel is suing Mt. Carmel Health System and its corporate parent Trinity Health for...
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About that trip to Mars…
Astronomer and co-recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Didier Queloz doesn’t think we...
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