Antibiotics for appendicitis? Not for this surgeon. Here’s why.

The long-awaited Finnish randomized controlled trial of antibiotics vs. surgery for appendicitis was just published in JAMA. Depending on your perspective, 73 percent of patients were successfully treated with antibiotics or 27 percent of patients failed antibiotics and needed surgery. The good news is that it was a large multicenter study involving 273 patients randomized […]

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