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Gall balls in the gall bag

Posted on September 24, 2008

We don't post much about clinical topics here, mainly because we haven't done much practice since our medical training days. I'm primarily a researcher and professor. But every once in a while I see papers on subjects that strike a nostalgic chord from those days and yesterday was one of those once-in-a-whiles. This was a report of a paper (DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.5282) about what we used to call gall balls in the gall bag, that is, gall bladder disease from gallstones. My medical school was located at a gigantic hospital with a very famous surgical program. And the chief surgeon there was most ...

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