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Is Daycare Tonsillectomy Safe?

Introduction: Tonsillectomy is one of the most common procedures performed by Ear, Nose, and Throat surgeon.  Usually, the procedure is carried out as an inpatient surgery. With the increasing need to reduce healthcare costs, spare precious hospital beds, and shorten elective surgery lists, there is currently a trend towards performing tonsillectomy on a daycare basis.  Materials and Methods: A...

Don't cry for us Argentinians: two decades of teaching medical humanities.

Medical humanities--history, literature, anthropology, ethics and fine arts applied to medicine--play an important role in medical education. For more than 20 years an effort has been made to obtain an academic identity for such a multidisciplinary approach. A distinction between humanitarianism and humanism is attempted here, the former being associated with medical care and the latter with me...

Safe in the Sun

سرطانهای جلدی را می توان به انواع پیش بدخیم و بدخیم تقسیم نمود. شایعترین ضایعه جلدی پیش بدخیم، کراتوز آفتابی نام دارد که بصورت ضایعات خشک و دلمه دار جلدی بروز می کنند - لنتیگو  آفتابی یک ضایعه پیش بدخیم دیگرن است که بصورت لکه های قهوه ای و صاف (غیر برجسته روی پوست مشاهده می شوند) ضایعات پیش بدخیم در صورت عدم درمان می توانند بدخیم شوند. 

How safe is safe enough?

Hospitals are rather strange places to work. The rationale, after all, of purposely concentrating into close quarters the sick, the frail, and the contagious is elusive at times. Further compounding the situation is the introduction of healthcare workers into the mix, usually at the ratio of approximately five or six full-time employees for every hospital bed. In no other circumstance, except p...

Are we really in safe hands? How safe is safe?