Dropped surgical implants are scarier than you think and here is why
Implants are supposed to be sterile when they enter the human body. That is the most basic assumption behind every hip and knee replacement surgery performed today. But there is a moment in operating rooms that surgeons dread and rarely talk about publicly. An implant slips, hits the floor, and a split-second decision follows. Can […]
Six drug combinations doctors don’t always catch together
Two drug prescriptions from two different doctors, taken exactly as directed, can still put a patient in the emergency room, and the reason usually isn’t dosage. It’s combination. A 2025 review of the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System looked at more than 167,000 filed reports involving drug interactions and found nearly 15,000 ended in death, […]