Skeptical Scalpel

A woman in New Zealand suffered bilateral pneumothoraces (collapsed lungs) after undergoing...

The eating contest season is almost over. As far as I can determine, there was only one deaths...

A 2014 review collected 136 case reports of accidental toothpick ingestion over an 85 year period....

Last week the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine ruled that surgeons must chart every...

Patient eel thyself A 50-year-old man presented to a Hong Kong emergency department with abdominal...

You couldn’t do again it if you tried A 42-year-old man was stabbed in the right chest and was...

Seven years ago, a medical student asked me why doctors still used pagers. I blogged about the...

Google that phrase and you will come up with lots of hits. The following is a partial list of...

“What About Recovery” is a provocative essay by Yale professor Lenore Buckley, MD, in the April 2,...

Nine years ago, blogger Jaan Sidorov wrote about new disease that a colleague dubbed “CoPaGA...

In 2010, I blogged about CT scan being the gold standard for the diagnosis of appendicitis....

In August 2014, a 13-year-old boy with type 1 diabetes died after being treated by self-described...

This notice appeared on the General Surgery News website in early February. I don’t know who has...

Freddie Clarence Williams was found unconscious from a drug overdose and was taken to a Bronx...

According to a recent New York Times article, people are traveling from near and far to two small...

By now, I’m sure most of you probably have heard about the Cleveland Clinic first-year resident...

By Skeptical Scalpel Hong Kong anesthesiologist Khaw Kim Sun was convicted of murdering his wife...