Welcome to the 2 Minute Medicine® Podcast, summarizing the latest medical studies, curated and written by practicing physicians. On this podcast, twice a month, we cover the latest in healthcare news and research evidence.

We begin this episode by discussing our two articles of the week. Our first article of the week comes from The Lancet and is entitled “2 day versus 5 days of postoperative antibiotics for complex appendicitis: a pragmatic, open-label, multicentre, non-inferiority randomised trial.” Our second article of the week comes from Pediatrics and is entitled “Childhood abuse, intimate partner violence in young adulthood, and welfare receipt by midlife.”

In the second half of our episode, we bring a medical eye to popular events. We cover Mr. Beast's role in helping 1000 blind people see for the first time, Damar Hamlin's partnership with the American Heart Association following a football game where he required on-field CPR, the Ozempic shortage and topics such as social determinants of health and diversity in medicine in the context of Black History Month.

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The 2 Minute Medicine® Podcast- Episode 9