http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/h...as-alternative-to-removing-appendix.html?_r=0
What, doctors being wrong about the cause of an illness, and wrong about antibiotics having no effect on it? Surely not!
More seriously, I wonder what percentage of those cases did not actually have appendicitis (whatever that turns out to be) but pseudo-appendicitis. I know Yersinia Enterocolitica can cause this (because I've experienced it) but I wouldn't be surprised if other pathogens can have a similar effect.
What, doctors being wrong about the cause of an illness, and wrong about antibiotics having no effect on it? Surely not!
More seriously, I wonder what percentage of those cases did not actually have appendicitis (whatever that turns out to be) but pseudo-appendicitis. I know Yersinia Enterocolitica can cause this (because I've experienced it) but I wouldn't be surprised if other pathogens can have a similar effect.