GP struck off after offering to "fix" kidney sale

Why can't my GP fix my teeth?

My dentist wants me to see him for a check-up every 6 months. Or at least he would if I had one. Like 44.6% of people in the UK I haven’t got an NHS dentist and I object to paying for one of the few things the government still tells me I should get for free. In fact, the last time I did get to see the dentist it was privately and this particular practice liked to make routine appointments not t...

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Frequency of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Treated With Normal Saline after Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common postoperative complication of cardiac surgery, which is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality. This study investigated the frequency of postoperative AKI in low risk adult patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).Materials & Methods: All consecutive adult patients of American Society of Anesthe...

To Fix or Not to Fix? That is the Question.

Eventually, the algorithm for when to intervene on the tricuspid valve during left sided valve surgery will be more robust. Better discriminatory preoperative data will be required to sort the role of annular size, right ventricular function, and pulmonary artery pressures. As for now, there is a paucity of evidence that an aggressive approach to fixing moderate functional TR during left sided ...

Brains at necropsy: to fix or not to fix?

AIM To investigate whether routine formalin fixation of all brains coming to necropsy increases the rate of detection of brain abnormalities relative to either selective formalin fixation of brain tissue or fresh dissection of all brain tissue at the time of post mortem examination. METHODS A retrospective study of 300 medicolegal necropsies was performed. One hundred cases were examined by d...