First10EM Journal Club: December 2023
Welcome to another episode of the Emergency Medicine Journal Club with Dr Justin Morgenstern. This month we cover a bunch of papers that look at...
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...
On Sick Kids, Sore Throats, Swabs and Such
Dear Fellow Doctors, I would like to take a moment of your time to discuss a point of medical practice which seems to remain controversial despite...