Tag: antibiotics

Appendicitis: Surgery vs. Antibiotics

Let us start with a case before a deep dive into the current evidence around the modern management of patients with acute appendicitis. A 30 year old,...

I: Vancomycin & the Nephrocidal Maniacs

Vancomycin was first isolated in 1953 by Edmund Kornfeld from a soil sample collected from the jungles of Borneo by a missionary. It is produced...