Gallbladder Blues “Toe in, toe in! Come on, retract, I can’t see what I’m doing!” These were the commonly heard urgings by gallbladder surgeons when I was a med student nearly thirty years ago. Gallbladders were removed through large incisions followed by long...
Today my first patient was my own co-worker. He was walking gingerly toward me holding his abdomen and wincing. “Could you check out my abdomen, I was up most of the night with pain.” As I pressed around his abdomen, the left lower quadrant was obviously the tender...
