u/cuttingirl78

Greetings. Pathologists’ assistant here. I have some questions about appendectomies. Obviously this is anecdotal, but is there an increasing trend of treating suspected appendicitis with antibiotics, drain, and imaging rather than surgery?

In the past week to ten days we’ve received multiple cases of presumed appendicitis that was a malignancy. By the time the malignancy caused symptoms, the cancer had spread all over the abdomen and the surgeries these patients received were en bloc resections of multiple organs.

I know that surgical guidelines are above our pay grade, and correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t around 1-2% of appendectomies positive for malignancy? It seems as though conservative treatment is going to miss those.

Exactly what the title says. I recently decided to take a gander and create an account on Her, which I thought was a queer dating/friendship connection app. I’m weirded out by the sheer number of cishet men that are trying to match with me. What is going on? I clicked the slider for “sapphic mode” and it’s still happening. What am I missing here?

EDIT: I’m not able to fix the grammatical error in the title. Grammar correction (straight + het redundancy) noted.