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3. ⁠Continue pushing cable in until medical assistance is needed

by CopyPastaArchive September 5, 2022, 6:28 am

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TIL The medical community still does not fully understand how, exactly, general anesthesia works.

by whatilearned August 31, 2022, 12:08 am

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TIL Fire Ants are an invasive species to the US. The FDA estimates $5 Billion is spent annually on medical treatment, damage, and control in Red Imported Fire Ant infested areas.

by whatilearned August 22, 2022, 6:16 pm

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People with non-obvious or stigmatized medical conditions, what “easy” tasks do friends/family/coworkers get mad at you for not doing because they either don’t believe you or think you’re using it as an excuse?

by QuestionGuy August 20, 2022, 4:16 am

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TIL that there’s a medical procedure called “Fecal Transplant” that literally consists in collecting feces, also called stool or poop, from a healthy donor and introduce them into a patient’s gastrointestinal tract. The procedure can control an infection called Clostridium difficile.

by whatilearned August 17, 2022, 9:38 am

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TIL in 2007, Somali pirates siezed a North Korean cargo vessel. The ship’s distress call was responded by an American Warship where they retook the ship and gave medical assistance to North Koreans. After this incident, the North Korean media expressed gratitude to the the United States.

by whatilearned August 8, 2022, 5:50 pm

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I have a medical student with an erection visible all the time. How the fuck do I bring this up to him?

by CopyPastaArchive August 8, 2022, 8:09 am

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TIL that in 2021 former NBA center Shawn Bradley was involved in a bike accident that left him paralyzed. He has since described his height (7 foot 6 or 2.29m) as a hindrance to recovery since quadriplegia at that height has no medical precedent.

by whatilearned August 3, 2022, 2:43 am

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TIL The precursor to ‘the rack’ torture device was the Hippocratic bench, a medical device used to straighten the spine/set bones.

by whatilearned August 2, 2022, 11:01 am

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[TIL] Human skeletons for medical research primarily come from India and to get them to be pristine white, they are first boiled, then eaten by bugs, and then bleached with quick lime.

by whatilearned August 1, 2022, 10:31 pm

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TIL about Susan La Flesche Picotte was a Native American doctor and reformer in the late 19th century. She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous peoples, and the first Indigenous woman, to earn a medical degree

by whatilearned July 31, 2022, 6:23 am

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TIL that the female G-spot is named after Ernst Gräfenberg, a progressive Jewish medical doctor who studied female sexual physiology (including female ejaculation) well ahead of his time.

by whatilearned July 30, 2022, 8:45 pm

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