http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/how-do-fecal-transplants-work.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/how-do-fecal-transplants-work.html#comment-88359 Maryn McKenna Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:29:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/how-do-fecal-transplants-work.html#comment-88359 Did you ever read "The Making of a Surgeon"? It was a JFK-era, macho I'll-cut-anything account of training at Bellevue; much funnier in retrospect than was probably intended at the time. IIRC, the author recounts a classmate who has a patient whose gut flora has been wiped out by abx, and who restores the patient to normalcy by secretly given him feces in chocolate milk. Did you ever read “The Making of a Surgeon”? It was a JFK-era, macho I’ll-cut-anything account of training at Bellevue; much funnier in retrospect than was probably intended at the time. IIRC, the author recounts a classmate who has a patient whose gut flora has been wiped out by abx, and who restores the patient to normalcy by secretly given him feces in chocolate milk.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/how-do-fecal-transplants-work.html#comment-88357 Anonymous Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:06:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/how-do-fecal-transplants-work.html#comment-88357 I think they just did a fecal transplant on Greys Anatomy. Because of a spat, the husband didn't want to poop for his wife. I think they just did a fecal transplant on Greys Anatomy. Because of a spat, the husband didn’t want to poop for his wife.

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