Doctors among creditors owed $7.2 million after medical company collapses
More than 200 doctors and other practitioners are owed a collective $7.2 million after a company that contracted them to write expert medical reports went…
Tag: Orthopaedics
Medical Must-See: Loose screw found in bladder 19 years after pubic bone surgery
A bout of mild pelvic pain and multiple UTIs in a middle-aged woman were linked to complications — namely, a loose screw — from pubic…
Spot Dx — Can you pick this post-FOOSH injury?
Ollie is an eight-year-old boy who is brought in by his father with left elbow pain after falling off his scooter, landing on his outstretched…
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Acute low back pain typically improves within six weeks: Aussie study
Most adults with acute low back pain can expect “substantial improvements” within six weeks of symptom onset, Australian researchers report. But many patients, particularly those…
Medical Must-See: Replacement hip hops to new location
Nine years after a revised total hip arthroplasty, an 84-year-old patient found herself back in hospital with an “extremely rare” case of intrapelvic cup migration,…
Spot Dx — What’s the best cure for this finger cyst?
A 56-year-old man, with a background of osteoarthritis affecting the thumbs and fingers of both hands, presents with an increasingly painful mass affecting the right…
Medical Must-See: Sprint for glory leaves man with bilateral Achilles tendon rupture
To loosely borrow from Oscar Wilde, to lose one’s Achilles tendon to rupture is a misfortune; to lose both simultaneously is just pure bad luck…
Doctors won’t see gender parity in most surgical specialties during their lifetime: Aussie study
It will take eight generations, or more than 180 years, before the number of female orthopaedic and cardiothoracic surgeons is the same as their male…
Spot Dx — What’s behind this painful shoulder?
Ralph, 41, presents with a painful right shoulder. Test your clinical know-how by taking the quiz below. If you select the wrong answer, have another…
