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How things are going in America

Today I had a patient, who I have not seen for over a year, send me a MyChart message out of the blue. She has...

I misdiagnosed a patient, and now i want to quit

I'm an intern and I misdiagnosed a patient. No one has criticized me for it, but i wish someone had. I wish i could apologize...

RFK Jr.s rejection of germ theory debunked in Senate hearing

RFK's denial of germ theory is nothing new to most of us. Mainstream media's apparent disinterest in the fact that RFK's science is taken from...

Why is pain management still usually NSAID only or none with colposcopy? Where did the idea that the cervix is insensate to pain come from?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11515944/ I was kind of taken aback when I found out that paracetmol + NSAID if even that seems to be the most common pain management...