An appendectomy is the surgical removal of an appendix. But there's been a weird pattern in the incidence of appendectomies over the last few decades.

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Appendicitis (2024) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
Appendectomy (2024) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
Three Centuries of Appendicectomy (2023) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
The Case Against Appendectomies (2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/we...
A Brief History of Appendicitis (2014) https://cbc.org.br/wp-content/uploads...
Historic Phases of Appendicitis (2011) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Berengario da Carpi (2019) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
Da Carpi (1530?) https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
Heister (1754) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
Copland (1853) https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
Fitz 1886 Paper https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/p...
Mcburney (1895) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
NEJM Commentary on Fitz’s paper (1935) https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056...

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⌛T I M E S T A M P S ⌛
0:00 intro
0:40 Discovering the Appendix
7:37 Appendicitis Becomes Surgical
12:30 Is Appendectomy Worth It?

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