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Phr!

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... I know it's not everybody's thing, but that band never stops providing for me. I'll tell you what,

it's October 18th, 2021, and that music came from October 29th, 1973, in a track just released this week.

It's like one of those things where if I retired tomorrow and no new

programs of any kind were ever made for Netflix and HBO, I still could spend the rest of my life

just trying to catch up with that. Same with that band, The Grateful Dead, unbelievable, always

putting out new stuff. Well, that's not true.

It's actually old stuff that sounds very new and refreshing to me.

But all right, on to medicine.

And I want to talk about a study also from this month.

This was from the October 7, 2021 New England Journal of Medicine.

And the title of the study is immediate versus postponed

intervention for infected necrotizing pancreatitis. So I've talked quite a bit about

pancreatitis. I had a whole lecture series on it and I think one of them was devoted to necrotizing

pancreatitis and this is just a little bit

more information in a scenario that's not too uncommon to see. So we see acute pancreatitis all the

time, right, in hospitals. And a minority of those patients, maybe like 20% will develop acute

necrotizing pancreatitis. And then if you're even more unlucky and have

pancreatic necrosis and then develop something called infected necrotizing pancreatitis, where you

actually have a true infection of the pancreatic necrosis, the problems and the lethality continue to compound.

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