Content tagged with “medicine” under “The Interesting List”

“ An explanation of why a quirk of legislation has caused ambulances to cost so much ”

“ A settlement in Antarctica is so remote and isolated, that you can’t still have your appendix and live there because the nearest hospital is so hard to get to that a burst appendix will kill you. ”

“ In 1986, the Air Force flew a human heart a long distance, very, very fast, so it would survive until it got implanted. ”

“ An Austrian man was a dwarf until the age of 20. Then he started growing to end up almost 8-feet fall. ”

“ Chris Duntsch was a very, very bad surgeon. He killed or maimed 90% of his patients, but no one wanted to speak up and embarrass the hospitals where he worked. ”

“ There are still a tiny handful of polio survivors across the USA living significant portions of their lives in iron lungs which are slowly deteriorating. ”

“ A company in Rwanda delivers blood and medical supplies by drone. They can parachute a package of blood 50 miles away in 30 minutes, ordered via text message. ”

“ A baby has been born resulting from an embryo fertilized 27 years prior. The baby effectively lived almost three decades before it was born. ”

“ The story of one man’s descent into, and recovery from, locked-in syndrome. ”

“ Memories of a physician who was in the emergency room where JFK was brought after he was shot in 1963. ”

“ A donor organ was rushed to its recipient in a Lamborghini police car. ”

“ Multiple studies have suggested that playing Tetris immediately following a traumatic event visually engages the brain in a way that can lower the future effects of PTSD. ”

“ Morbidly, auto crashes are a good source of healthy organs for transplantation. Pandemic lockdown means fewer crash deaths, and therefore fewer organs for transplant. ”

“ A tragic retelling of the decline of Robin Williams by his wife, as Lewy Body Dementia took its toll. ”

“ An excellent explainer of what the different cancer labels mean, from ‘Stage X’ to ‘Advanced.’ ”

“ One of the players in the Super Bowl got his medical degree last year. He was drafted to the NFL during his third year of medical school. ”

“ Addiction may be a universal problem, but rehab is very different when you’re absurdly wealthy. ”

“ A backstory behind a seemingly successful penis transplant, and the complications and ethical questions it raises. ”

“ This is a medical procedure which might be an urban legend. ”

“ The US health care system only works because doctors and nurses have little work-life balance and they constantly expand their workflow to fit the demands placed on them. ”

“ The annual American Psychiatric Association conference is an orgy of the absurd and a symbol of everything wrong with American medicine. ”

“ This starts as a blistering indictment of Epic, the medical records system, but morphs into a larger discussion of how doctors relate to technology and whether it makes things better or worse. ”