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Four long-form articles about the decisions people ask us to explain: how a cut gets closed, why an antibiotic was not prescribed, when an ankle earns an X-ray, and what a DOT physical checks.

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Injury care · 6 min read

Stitches, glue or nothing: how we decide how to close a cut

Closure method is not a preference. Location, tension, contamination and the hours since the injury decide it, and getting the decision wrong costs you a scar or an infection.

Priya Deshmukh, PA-C · 12 September 2026

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Illness · 6 min read

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Stitches, glue or nothing: how we decide how to close a cut

Why you did not get antibiotics, and what we watched for instead

When an ankle actually needs an X-ray

What a DOT physical actually checks, and what trips drivers up

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