A patient comes in with the chief complaint of a toothache. After a short examination including an X-ray film, tapping on the tooth, and checking the gums the dentist determines that tooth decay is deep enough inside the tooth to infect the pulp or the root canal. The patient needs root canal treatment. Hearing “infection,” ...
Hospitalized from 02/22/2004 – 04/03/2004 Cost of treatment: Approximately $300,000 Surviving NF & keeping my arm: Priceless I felt a slight pain in my arm late one evening, shrugged it off and went to bed. In the morning, I woke up in agony: extremely painful right arm and armpit, fever, physical exhaustion and other flu-like ...
Dwight: Someone forged medical information. That’s a felony. Jim: Ok, whoa, alright? Because that’s a pretty intense accusation. How do you know they’re fake? Dwight: Uh, leprosy, flesh eating bacteria, hot dog fingers, government-created killer nano robot infection. Just in case you’re still one of those millions who hasn’t discovered NBC’s best show since “Seinfeld,” ...
Recently, our 12-year-old granddaughter, Aspen, and her 9-year-old sister, Autumn, came to our house for a visit. Aspen had a few mosquito bites on her legs, but I thought little of it, as she loves the outdoors and seldom bothers to protect herself with repellant. Most bites make really bad-looking places on her skin, but ...
Disasters occur all around the world, every single day. Most are natural disasters, such as tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, ice storms and blizzards. Some are chemical, such as tractor trailer rigs wrecking and spilling toxins into the air and environment, or accidental poisonous discharges from manufacturing plants. Some are terrorist attacks, such as the ...
We’ve all watched movies that portray horrific scenes of decomposing flesh and amputated limbs– they are a Hollywood favorite. Sadly this popular cinematic depiction became twenty-four year old Aimee Copelands’ reality after a zip-line accident. The bacterial infection that Aimee Copeland contracted, which is known as Necrotizing Fasciitis, is not a new kind of infection ...
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