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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) shows the mortality rate for 4287 COVID 19 patients who received advanced respiratory support was 58.8%....
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The Skeptical Scalpel Awards
Written by Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel Now for something completely different. Here is the first edition of the Skeptical Scalpel Awards. Coronavirus Research Awards (3-Way Tie for...
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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 about recent changes in airport screening practices, risk management expert Bruce McIndoe discussed...
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Unusual cases Part 6: Surviving Bizarre Perforations
by Skeptical Scalpel, Physician’s Weekly Top Blogger One patient, two complications Fig 1. Hole in gallbladder wall A patient who was to undergo a robot-assisted right nephrectomy because of recurrent...
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Acute appendicitis: Will a novel endoscopic “organ-sparing” approach change...
by Skeptical Scalpel, Physician’s Weekly Top Blogger Will a novel endoscopic “organ-sparing” approach change the treatment paradigm? I say a resounding “NO.” An opinion piece with the above title in...
View ArticleJury Awards $400,000 in “Wrongful Prolongation of Life” Lawsuit
The estate of Rodney Knoepfle successfully sued a Montana hospital for not honoring his wish to be treated as “Do Not Resuscitate/Do Not Intubate” [DNR/DNI] during a 2016 hospitalization. A recent...
View ArticleThe alarming frequency of errors in medical records
By Physician’s Weekly Blogger, Skeptical Scalpel My comments are in italics. Over the course of my 45 or so years in the business, I have noticed many patient charts contain errors. I’ve never stopped...
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How long should patients fast before elective surgery? Part 2
Written by Physician’s Weekly Blogger, Skeptical Scalpel A couple of years ago, I blogged about preoperative fasting here. I had conducted a Twitter poll asking surgeons, anesthesiologists, and...
View ArticleThey’re MDs, but they can’t find residency positions
Written by Physician’s Weekly Blogger, Skeptical Scalpel In February, the New York Times published an article about this subject. Several vignettes depicted the plight of medical school graduates who...
View ArticleDoctors in the news and not in a good way
Jason Pirozzolo, a Florida hand surgeon, is being investigated by the feds for “having allegedly paid for the travel expenses, accommodations, and female escorts” on a trip to the Bahamas with...
View ArticleDoctors in the news and not in a good way: Part 2
In this week’s post, physicians’ behavior goes from the ridiculous to the deadly serious. Social media strikes again. TikTok videos show Brazilian plastic surgeon Caren Trisoglio Garcia dancing with...
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A TikTok challenge: Can it be stopped from harming people?
Russian doctors endoscopically removed 209 magnetic balls one at a time from the stomach of a two-year-old child. His parents had noticed black stools and colored metal balls in his stools. The figures...
View ArticleThe Decline of Science
By Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel Sherri Jane Tenpenny, an Ohio family practitioner and outspoken anti-vaxxer, was, for some reason, invited to testify as an expert witness at the Ohio...
View ArticleBeing sued for malpractice is one thing; being accused of homicide takes it...
By Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel An investigation into the death of 60-year-old Argentine soccer icon Diego Maradona has resulted in seven members of his medical team being charged with...
View ArticleThe amateur urologist
By Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel Ryan King, a 28-year-old man from Brisbane, Australia, admitted in court that he castrated two men who had contacted him through a “eunuch-interest”...
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Naturopath faces federal charges for selling fake Covid-19 vaccination cards
By Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel Naturopath Juli A. Mazi, who practices in Napa, California, was charged with wire fraud and making false statements related to healthcare matters. She...
View ArticleYou won’t believe what this woman said about masks at a school board meeting
Former Disney actress Leigh-Allyn Baker spoke to the Williamson County, Tennessee school board recently. She said she was a “refugee” from California and was against the board’s mandate that children...
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COVID Follies: Tales from the Pandemic
In the last few months I have written about a woman speaking before a school board in Tennessee and claiming that masks decrease the amount of oxygen to the brain and a family practitioner who...
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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 Figure 1. Contrast in the stomach, showing an inguinal/scrotal hernia An elderly man with a long history of a left...
View ArticleComparison of Outcomes of Antibiotic Drugs and Appendectomy (CODA) Trial:...
Written by Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel The short-term results of the CODA trial have just been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. This study of over 1500 patients...
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