We love ranking and rating things and have come to rely on them. What’s the highest ranked college that your kid can get into? Which restaurant has the best Yelp review?  Which beach did TripAdvisor rank as the best in the world? Rankings and ratings are increasingly permeating healthcare, too. US News and World Report already releases annual and ‘scientific’…

By William J. Knaus, MD, Nicholas Caggiano, MD, and Matthew L. Iorio, MD Confusion regarding the appropriate use of apostrophes in medical eponyms is pervasive in medicine.  They are used to denote someone who had the disease (e.g., “Bennett’s fracture”), an occupation associated with the disease (e.g., “gamekeeper’s thumb”), or an homage to a description of the disease (e.g., “Dupuytren’s…