Today’s Stimulating Medical Publication Title of the Day is: “Whack on the side of head spurs creativity,” D. Chase, OR Manager, 1992 Feb;8(2):16-7. The authors is, or was, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. [NOTE: The “OR” here is an acronym for “Operating Room”]
Tag: medical
Delving into fecal transplants
Pagan Kennedy writes, in The Atlantic, the kinds of interest sparked by fecal transplants: The Poop Outlaws: At-Home Fecal Transplants to Cure Disease …But such treatments still shimmer in the future. In the meantime, the best approximation we’ve got is, well, crap…. Lately, rumors about poop miracles have been proliferating on the Internet. In patient support […]
The medical effects of sword swallowing, perused
Jennifer Ouellette looks deep into the sword-swallowing and medical adventures of Ig Nobel Prize winner Dan Meyer, in her essay in Cocktail Party Physics. She begins: By the Sword: The Science of Sword-Swallowing A couple of weeks ago, new media mogul Arianna Huffington had an unusual experience: assisting veteran sword swallower Dan Meyer, who was visiting […]
Pork, the surprise (yet traditional) remedy for a nosebleed
A new medical study recommends a method called “nasal packing with strips of cured pork” as an effective way to treat uncontrollable nosebleeds. Ian Humphreys, Sonal Saraiya, Walter Belenky and James Dworkin [pictured here], at Detroit Medical Centre in Michigan, treated a girl who had a rare hereditary disorder that brings prolongued bleeding. Publishing in […]