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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Author: SkepticalScalpel
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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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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Unusual cases part 4
Do not put stuff in your urethra A 14-year-old Chinese boy placed some magnetic beads in his...
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Unusual cases part 3
A 60-year-old woman presented to an emergency department with chest pain. At a wedding the day...
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Bilateral pneumothoraces after acupuncture
A woman in New Zealand suffered bilateral pneumothoraces (collapsed lungs) after undergoing...
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Top 10 harms patients experience in hospitals
More made-up news about patient harms. Following up on last month’s post on the fallacy of medical...
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Third leading cause of death revisited
Ever since the publication of the infamous 2016 BMJ opinion piece by Makary claiming medical error...
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