Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease that can affect any part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract including the mo…Read more

In 1914, surgeon Harry Sherman, recommended green, a color “less wearisome to the eyes and [one that] minimized reflection.” He further suggested that green “keeps the surgeon’s eye acute to red and pink.”

Ciel” (sky) blue became popular as a color for surgical apparel in the 1950s, when color television be…Read more

💠Macroglossia.
✅Dx:
1️⃣Acquired macroglossia is usually due to systemic amyloidosis.
2️⃣Abnormal deposition of amyloid protein causes macroglossia.

Twin-Twin Transfusion syndrome in which there is an imbalance in the blood flow due to abnormal placenta connections,often seen in monochorionic twins. One twin (donor) gives too much blood to the recipient twin.

This Egyptian papyrus dates from the 1600 BCE and is only 5 meters in length. It is a manual for performing traumatic surgery, describes treatment for repairing a broken nose, and the use of sutures to close wounds.

Sister Mary Joseph, Nursing Superintendent, St Mary’s Hospital, USA, observed that patients with terminal cancer sometimes developed a red papular lesion in the umbilicus. She and William Mayo published this observation in 1928

SISTER MARY JOSEPH’S MARY NODULE
Dr. Hamilton Bailey, in 1949, coined the term…Read more

🎯Ensuing lower concentration in gastrointestinal tract results in lesser incidence of diarrhea with amoxicillin

🎯Amoxicillin is preferred over ampicillin whenever oral administration is possible