The Australasian Medical Gazette was a normal medical journal in most respects, with the addition of occasional features relevant to the unique concerns of the doctor practicing in rural Australia (or New Zealand). These ranged from advice on how to avoid being outcompeted by fraudulently subsidized Friendly Societies in the western goldfields, to the report […]
Tag: surgery
Then: Michael Jackson surgery. Now: Justin Bieber surgery.
The Daily Mail reports the occurrence of surgery to make a British man look like singer Justin Bieber. This follows in the tradition established by the surgeons who rearranged a Belgian man in an effort to make him look like singer Michael Jackson. The photo below shows some of the pages of the medical journal […]
Adams apples : examinations (part 2)
Some, like AdamsAppleBoy shown above are perfectly happy with the size of their Adam’s Apple. But sadly, that’s not the case for everyone, like, for example the late artist Norman Rockwell. And others, who consider theirs to be seriously oversized, might even contemplate chondrolaryngoplasty as a solution. See an example paper in the Indian Journal […]
The Puzzling Case of the Presurgical Spray Tan
Yet another mystery presented itself to the medical profession, and yielded to the detective powers thereof. Details are in the study: “Discourage the presurgical spray tan — Physicians were puzzled by the patient’s postoperative skin damage,” Miriam S. Krause, Henry Bohler, Steven T. Nakajima, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, epub April 2, 2013. The […]