Appendicitis strikes about 300,000 Americans a year, afflicting one out of 10 adults at some point in their lives and appendectomy is done.

“The time has come to consider abandoning routine appendectomy for patients with uncomplicated appendicitis,” said Dr. Edward H. Livingston, a surgeon and editor at the journal.
In the 1950s, soon after antibiotics were discovered, some doctors reported success using them to treat patients with appendicitis. But, Dr. Livingston wrote in his editorial, “So powerful is the perceived benefit of appendectomy for appendicitis that surgical treatment for appendicitis remains unquestioned, with seemingly little interest in studying the problem.”
"Obviously, you can treat appendicitis with an antibiotic,” said Dr. David Flum, a surgeon at the University of Washington who will be a principal investigator in that study. “But from a patient’s point of view, should you?”
Source-Medindia