I have been treating diverticulitis for 30 years the same way. When I suspect that a patient has this diagnosis, I prescribe antibiotics. This has been the standard treatment for this disorder for decades. I have found that diverticulitis is a slippery entity that has two trap doors waiting for physicians to fall through. It is an easy task to miss the diagnosis. Every physician has done this. The diagnosis can be erroneously assigned to a patient. Every physician has done this. Recognize that the phrase ‘every physician has done this’ includes me. The diagnosis can be elusive as there is no diagnostic test that secures the diagnosis. The technology tsunami has covered the medical landscape, as it has run over so many other spheres in our society. Doctors and patients increasingly rely upon ‘the numbers’. Want proof? Do you think there are many physicians today who can actually plug a stethoscope into their ears and hear, let aloneunderstand all of
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