Colby Cosh: Have we been treating appendicitis all wrong? :

Colby Cosh: Have we been treating appendicitis all wrong?
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These are strange times if you’re a swollen, painful appendix. On Monday, the medical school of Ireland’s Royal College of Surgeons announced the outcome of a trial that looked into one of the most intriguing issues in modern medicine: can simple cases of appendicitis be treated with antibiotics alone instead of surgery? This may sound unthinkable to the layman raised in a world that still takes for granted that an inflamed appendix has got to be cut out at all hazards.
Doctors once took this dogma so seriously that there are famous cases of self-appendectomy by surgeons who couldn’t get to a hospital. One of the pioneers of local anaesthesia, Evan Kane, took his own healthy appendix out in 1921 just to prove that novocaine was a good replacement for the drug then in use, which was cocaine.

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