Spot Dx — Can you name this solitary nodule?
A 71-year-old retired firefighter presents with a solitary nodule on his left arm. Test your clinical know-how by taking the quiz below. If you select…
Tag: Surgery
Medical Must-See: Doctors unpeel bowel obstruction case
US surgeons have issued unusual — yet sage — advice to chew one’s unpeeled kumquats carefully before swallowing, after an elderly man who ate the…
Cause for caution with corticosteroids pre-arthroplasty
A sixty-five-year-old man, with no medical comorbidities, has a painful right hip which is being investigated by his GP. An MRI shows severe hip joint…
24 surgeries in 24 years: The remarkable story of Dr Caitlin Rutherford-Heard
“The doctor didn’t come to speak to me afterwards. They didn’t tell Mum and Dad that the surgery hadn’t worked. “They didn’t visit me in the ICU or on the ward. I never had a follow-up appointment. …
Spot Dx — Thumb lump plays havoc for this violinist
Alphonsus is a 65-year-old professional violinist who presents with a lump on the radio-volar aspect of the interphalangeal joint of his right thumb. Test your…
‘After removing a rectum, I’d be in a valley with sheep and a couple of parrots’: Dr Freedman’s life in colour
In the first of the pandemic lockdowns Dr David Freedman was wondering how to fill his days, when a pair of eastern rosellas began nesting…
Medical Must-See: How a simple elbow dislocation led to fasciotomy six hours later
A Japanese woman escaped serious complications, including myonecrosis, following a simple elbow dislocation that morphed into acute compartment syndrome, doctors report. The case also highlights…
Heart surgeons accused of running multiple operations at once, leaving trainees in charge: US
Three surgeons have been accused of delegating “extremely complicated” heart surgeries to unqualified medical residents so they could run up to three surgeries at once.…
‘My career was over in a second’: Dr Stacy Patterson on her Parkinson’s diagnosis at 29
Dr Stacy Patterson first noticed a tremor in her left hand in 2018. At the time, she was training as an obstetrics and gynaecology registrar…
Kidney transplant performed on awake patient using epidural in ‘medical first’
Doctors have achieved what they say is a medical first, by performing a kidney transplant on a patient who was awake during the procedure. Surgeons…
