The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
then a study came out showing that you don't need to operate and a short course of antibiotics is 67% effective in patients that don't that come in with appendicitis if the appendix is not ruptured or there's no little Stone what we call a fecalith in the appendix which is the vast majority of people don't have rupture or aigal
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you're saying that you can get 60 to 70% the same outcome if you give them an antibiotic and if they don't respond to antibiotic then you'll take a third of those people otherwise back to surgery yes exactly and of those that um do not um of those who respond well to the antibiotics it's something like high 80% will respond to the initial course of antibiotics a small fraction maybe 12% will come back with recurrent symptoms in the first month and say hey I I got that pain back and then you go to surgery for them so the total cure though is about 2/3 two of cases and you don't get behind the eightball it's not like oh you know well we washed it with an we gave a short course of antibiotic watched it and now it's so far along we can't do anything and the patient is far worse they've done the long-term followup yep so and it's not just you know you made a good point about the cost and the other thing but the patient uh doesn't have to go undergo an incision anesthesia risk of infection risk of hernia all the minor risk but they're present the carbon footprint of the hospital the amount of waste produced the nursing staffing resources I mean the weight list at a hospital every every night in every hospital in America has cases that are waiting to go and typically there's an appendix or two on that list and sometimes these are operations that are going to be done in the middle of the night anyway yeah we've got a nursing staffing crisis you know so there's so many implications to appropriately implementing this research