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A miraculous recovery is expected for a 10-year old boy who, while being attacked by yellow jackets in a tree house, fell to the ground only to be impaled by a meat skewer that entered through his face diving d

A 36-year-old man learned the hard way that surgical intervention was needed when he fractured his penis having acquired what is known as an eggplant deformity&

Scientism uses the cloak of quantity to explain and describe qualities, in particular qualities that lose their true meaning when reduced to a quantity.

While hip fractures can occur for anyone, the majority of patients are elderly individuals who have fallen.

It’s been a while since I wrote about foreign bodies in the body; but, given a recent published case report describes a 20-cm eggplant transanally positioned and stuc

With First Lady Melania Trump’s current hospitalization after enduring an embolization for a “benign kidney condition” for w

Things aren’t always what they seem.  Why should this colloquialism be any different in the medical realm?

This week a meta-analysis in JAMA Surgery looked at Prevalence and Causes of attrition among surgical residents [1] Here are the highlights:

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