This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has three segments. Here are bits of each of them: Deep Oesophagus — Scientists, as a group, like to think they behave in ways a little distinct from the herd. The herd, as a herd, likes to think so, too. From time to time, Feedback receives furtive […]
This may be the only published medical account of how to remove a cows-foot bone that’s stuck in a patient’s esophagus: “A Foreign Body Larger Than the Overtube Diameter: A Case of a Large Cow Foot Bone Causing Esophageal Impaction,” Arun Swaminath, MD, Aimee Lee Lucas, MD, Kristina Capiak, BFA, Amrita Sethi, MD, and Reuben […]