by Ketan Dhatariya | Sep 25, 2020 | Eastern Daily Press
EDP column by Professor Ketan Dhatariya “My doctor has asked me to have a smear test. He called it ‘pap smear’. What is that?” The smear test is named ‘pap’ after the chap who first developed it, George Papanicolau, a Greek doctor who lived between 1883 and 1962. A...
by Ketan Dhatariya | Sep 25, 2020 | Eastern Daily Press
EDP column by Professor Ketan Dhatariya “My sister recently broke up with her boyfriend and took an overdose of paracetamol. She ended up staying in hospital for several days on a drip. I thought paracetamol was safe?” No drug is safe if taken in overdose. The reason...
by Ketan Dhatariya | Sep 25, 2020 | Eastern Daily Press
EDP column by Professor Ketan Dhatariya “My wife has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. What is this?” James Parkinson was born in London in 1755 and died in 1824. He was a doctor, politician and a fossil collector. He described several medical conditions, but...
by Ketan Dhatariya | Sep 25, 2020 | Eastern Daily Press
EDP column by Professor Ketan Dhatariya Polycystic ovarian syndrome is extremely common with anything up to 7 or 8% of the female population having this disorder. It is usually comes to light with any one of several seemingly unrelated problems. These tend to be being...
by Ketan Dhatariya | Sep 25, 2020 | Eastern Daily Press
EDP column by Professor Ketan Dhatariya Georg Perthes was a German surgeon who lived between 1869 and 1927. The condition named after him was in fact first described by a Czech surgeon, Karel Maydl, in 1897. However, three men simultaneously described the condition in...
