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About 1 in every 350 colonoscopies do serious harm. The death rate is about 1 for every 1,000 procedures
About 80 percent of endoscopes are cleaned using Cidex (glutaraldehyde), which does NOT Continue reading
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About 1 in every 350 colonoscopies do serious harm. The death rate is about 1 for every 1,000 procedures
About 80 percent of endoscopes are cleaned using Cidex (glutaraldehyde), which does NOT Continue reading
You know, they say there’s not much use for Latin any more. Some scholars even call it a “dead language.”
But a group of doctors is banding together to remind their colleagues of one old Latin phrase they should have learned on their first day of medical school.
Primum non nocere. It means, “First, do no harm.”
That’s the message behind a new set of guidelines issued by a health group that’s trying to put the kibosh on 90 medical tests and treatments that may do more harm than good. Continue reading
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