How many of you remember the 1966 film ‘Fantastic Voyage‘? Those who don’t know it can read more at the link. Briefly, it involved technology to miniaturize a submarine and its crew to perform a life-saving operation by ‘swimming’ through human blood vessels into the brain of the patient. It now appears that science may… Continue reading ‘Fantastic Voyage’ not so fantastic any more?
Tag: Health
Remind me to be more careful in the bathroom . . .
I’m both horrified and fascinated by a report from China. These amazing X-rays show how a man arrived with a tap and 16 inches of pipework stuck in his eye at a hospital’s casualty unit. But the terrified patient was forced to pull the tap out himself – because surgeons took three hours to send… Continue reading Remind me to be more careful in the bathroom . . .
Mind-boggling . . .
I know people complain of gall bladder stones, and kidney stones . . . but how on Earth did this one escape notice for so long? The largest kidney stones most doctors ever get to see is the size of a golf ball. So surgeons in Hungary were taken aback when they removed a stone… Continue reading Mind-boggling . . .
This is amazing!
I’m stunned to read of what doctors found when they treated a newborn baby in Colorado for what they thought was a brain tumor. Three-month-old Sam Esquibel has been hailed a ‘miracle baby’ after he survived the operation on what doctors believed was a large tumour, picked-up during an ultrasound on Sam’s heavily pregnant mother… Continue reading This is amazing!
Doofus Of The Day #140
Today’s Doofus is Dr. Richard Batista of New York. He’s apparently demanding that his estranged wife pay him $1.5 million for the kidney he donated to her in 2001. A few questions for Dr. Batista: If you didn’t put a price on your kidney when you donated it, how have you arrived at a valuation… Continue reading Doofus Of The Day #140
This calls for some careful anal-ysis
I’m dumbfounded by a report from Romania. It’s a medical mystery that surgeons never got to the bottom of in a hospital casualty room – how a woman patient ended up with a can of hairspray up her backside. Mirela Gradinaru, 37, turned up at the clinic in Arad, western Romania, in agony begging doctors… Continue reading This calls for some careful anal-ysis
Be grateful to our nurses
I have two sisters in the nursing profession, and have some exposure to emergency medicine through my involvement with St. John Ambulance in South Africa during my teens and twenties (although not at the level of paramedic/EMT in the USA). I’ve always known that nursing could be not only a thankless profession, but also an… Continue reading Be grateful to our nurses
Good Samaritan – or reckless fool?
I’m obliged to Curtis F. for e-mailing me the link to this story. The California Supreme Court has recently ruled on one aspect of an issue that’s of very real importance to all of us – whether or not we should render assistance to an injured person, or one apparently in danger, in an emergency.… Continue reading Good Samaritan – or reckless fool?
A sneeze isn’t always what it seems!
I’m not sure what to make of this report. Sure, you sneeze when you’ve got a cold. But some sneezes may happen just by thinking about sex or having an orgasm, British doctors report. Mahmood Bhutta, a specialist in ear-nose-and-throat surgery at England’s Wexham Park Hospital, writes of a colleague who once had a patient… Continue reading A sneeze isn’t always what it seems!
A ‘miracle cure’ for strokes?
A German man has made a remarkable recovery from a double hemorrhagic stroke after a revolutionary new treatment. Doctors have used a revolutionary stem cell treatment to restore the power of speech for a stroke victim. Walter Bast also regained the use of his right arm after the operation to place a ‘teabag’ of drug-producing… Continue reading A ‘miracle cure’ for strokes?