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VieCuri heeft nu als 1e ziekenhuis van Nederland een ultrasnelle PTH-meter die binnen 5 minuten een uitslag kan leveren. Dat betekent dat de chirurg al tijdens de operatie duidelijkheid heeft over al dan niet dalende PTH-waarden. “Voorheen was dit een tijdrovend proces, met het risico dat de patiënt mogelijk een tweede operatie nodig had. Met […]
There are patients you can never forget. Some because you connected unusually deeply with them as people or with their stories—some because you may have seen yourself or a loved one in their shoes, on that gurney, in that pain. On a paediatric rotation as a medical student at Kings County Hospital in East Flatbush, NY, USA, during the 1980s, I was part of team that took care of a toddler slowly succumbing to AIDS. An orphan, as so many were in those terrible years, his bedside chart read Baby M.
In a Correspondence, Jaime Garcia-Iglesias and colleagues1 argue that the term mpox is inconsistently used in Spanish-speaking, French-speaking, and Portuguese-speaking countries. These countries sometimes still use stigmatising names with racist connotations, such as viruela del mono, variole du singe, and variola dos macacos. The authors advocate adopting viruela M, variole M, and variola M instead. Although we understand the authors’ rationale, their proposed nomenclature could cause confusion between mpox and smallpox, which is also known as viruela, variole, and variola.
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