Pants must not be filled with foam, lest bad things happen. That is a possible lesson one could draw from this monograph: “A Sticky Situation…”, J. Hardwicke, S. Azad, and J.K.G. Laitung, Injury Extra, vol. 37, 2006, pp. 34–5. The authors at Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, UK, report [AIR 16:2]: A 25-year-old man was admitted […]
Tag: Improbable Medical Review
The Case of the Bagel, the Bite, and the Ticking Clock
“A New, Occasional Instrument for Measuring Marital Quality: The Time Required to Make a Cream Cheese and Salmon Bagel Following Funnel-Web Spider Bite,” Gary Walter, Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 171, nos. 11–12, December 6–20, 1999, pp. 674–5. [AIR 16:2] The author is a psychiatrist in Concord West, NSW, Australia. His firsthand account includes a […]
The “Holy Plane” of Rectal Surgery
“The ‘Holy Plane’ of Rectal Surgery,” R.J. Heald, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, vol. 81, September 1988, pp. 503–8. The author, at Basingstoke District Hospital, Basingstoke, U.K., explains [AIR 16:1]: this is the story of a simple artisan’s pleasure in the actual style of performing an operation—in essence the way to use a […]
Double-Edged Therapeutic Value of Karaoke
“Karaoke Therapy in the Rehabilitation of Mental Patients,” C.M. Leung, G. Lee, B. Cheung, E. Kwong, Y.K. Wing, C.S. Kan, and J. Lau, Singapore Medical Journal, vol. 39, no. 4, April 1998, pp. 166–8. The authors, at Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, conclude that [AIR 16:1]: “Karaoke therapy may be more […]