This ethics discussion, broadcast in The Netherlands, concerns the man who lost his leg and gained a floor lamp, which we discussed here recently. Dr. Erwin Kompanje is the main medical discussant here: UPDATE: The man is trying to sell his leg/lamp on Ebay for 100,000 euros: Here’s a report about that, by HVNL:
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The man who lost his leg and gained a floor lamp
An alternate headline for this post: “Leg of Lamp”. NRC Reader reports [in Dutch, auto-translated here into English]: I Wanted a Floor Lamp The right leg of Leo Bonten broke after a stupid accident. There was an infection, it was off. But Leo wanted to keep his leg per se. To make a lamp out […]
Lower Extremity Kinetics in Tap Dance
For the first time, Improbable can draw attention to an experimentally verified investigation into ‘Lower Extremity Kinetics in Tap Dance’ (in: Journal of Dance Medicine & Science, Volume 14, Number 1, March 2010 , pp. 3-10(8)) Investigators Lester Mayers, M.D., Shaw Bronner, P.T., Ph.D., O.C.S., Sujani Agraharasamakulam, M.S., and Sheyi Ojofeitimi, M.P.T. asked six professional […]
Accounting for accommodation in a one-legged two-eared eared grebe
The title of this study says “grebes” [plural], but the story involves a single grebe [singular]. That single grebe does, as the title implies, have a single [one] leg: “Ecological Constraints and Phenotypic Accommodation in One-legged Eared Grebes,” Joseph R. Jehl Jr., The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 125(4), 2013, pp. 829-832. (Thanks to investigator Adrian […]
Spectacular anatomy lesson
A spectacular new understanding or misunderstanding of anatomy is on display in Figure 1 of a new study (click on this link download a PDF of the study). The caption there says: Fig. 1. CT scan of abdomen and pelvis showing radio-dense bony foreign body perforating through the sigmoid colon (red arrow). Flecks of free intra-peritoneal […]