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I don’t think my doctor went to medical school

by cringeyjokesman June 30, 2022, 12:59 am

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TIL Leon Lederman, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics and author of The God Particle, faced overwhelming medical debt near the end of his life and was forced to sell his Nobel Prize to pay it off

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 8:38 pm

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TIL that in 2021 the Razzie Awards developed a special category for the Worst Bruce Willis Performance in a 2021 Movie. They later scrapped it when the actor’s aphasia diagnosis became public saying it was inappropriate to award it to someone whose performance was affected by a medical condition.

by whatilearned June 22, 2022, 9:19 pm

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TIL that after the Shah of Iran’s overthrow, he was reluctantly given medical treatment in Panama. Panama assigned him a “militantly Marxist sociology professor” as a chief bodyguard who “spent much time lecturing the Shah on how he deserved his fate” and was charged $21,000 a month for rent.

by whatilearned June 19, 2022, 5:55 pm

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TIL Hospitals Are Allowing Medical Students to Perform Pelvic Exams on Unconscious Women — Without Their Consent

by whatilearned June 11, 2022, 11:47 pm

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TIL-In the 1800s, William Burke & William Hare realized Edinburgh University medical school paid for cadavers, so they made money by having Hare, a landlord, rent to Edinburgh’s poor community; Burke would then get them drunk and suffocate them. This killing method would come to be called “Burking.”

by whatilearned June 9, 2022, 2:10 am

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A group of first year medical students are gathered around a table with a naked cadaver on it…..

by cringeyjokesman June 9, 2022, 1:51 am

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What do you call someone who graduates at the bottom of their class in medical school?

by cringeyjokesman June 7, 2022, 3:19 am

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Medical professionals of reddit, what’s your story of a patient who just couldnt grasp how urgent the situation was?

by QuestionGuy June 5, 2022, 12:58 am

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What are some bizarre medical conditions?

by QuestionGuy May 19, 2022, 2:24 am

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TIL that people can actually die of a broken heart and the medical term is Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (broken-heart syndrome)

by whatilearned May 16, 2022, 1:40 pm

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What medical term or condition, if you didn’t know its meaning, sounds like it would make a good band name?

by QuestionGuy May 15, 2022, 5:35 am

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