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What is appendicitis?

Posted on April 17, 2023 by Hippocratic Post

What is appendicitis? Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix, a small, potentially vestigial organ that branches off the large intestine. Inflammation is usually a result of some sort of obstruction in the lumen of the appendix, which ultimately leads to infection. […]

Patient case studies

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Martin Jourdan

A young man in his early 30s was brought to A&E in a large London Hospital after calling NHS Direct and reporting extreme tenderness and pain in his abdomen for the last 36 hours. He complained that he had to wait on a trolley and he only gave the hospital 5 out of 10. But […]