The medical world is second to none. Just last year, for example, a 34-year-old old man developed an allergy to cold air. There was also a Brazilian fella who surprised his doctors with having three kidneys. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There are plenty of memorable cases that continue to surprise us to this day. And you can find most of them on the subreddit r/MEDizzy. It's an online community created for medical professionals to discuss everything and anything that crosses their minds (or operating tables) and it has seen quite a few interesting posts during the 3 years of its existence. Here are some of them.
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James Harrison The "Man With The Golden Arm"
After needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.
Thank for your life saving donation. One of the best gifts you can give.
General practitioner, medical researcher, and founder of PrimeHealth Clinical Research, Iris Gorfinkel, M.D., told Bored Panda that it might be just a matter of time before we get many more cool medical cases. "I'm excited about a few things," she said. "Let's start with wearable technology. I think this has tremendous importance in medicine. Say a person checks their own blood pressure and brings those readings to the doctor. Blood pressure is a huge thing. It's a major cardiovascular risk factor that is responsible not only for heart attack, but it can also be responsible for stroke, kidney disease, and vascular damage."
"The problem is when patients come into the office, they're nervous, they're sometimes fatigued, they're sometimes depressed, or anxious. And all of these things can cause the blood pressure to go up and give us artificially high readings. But imagine when a patient comes in with a reliable wearable (and I say reliable because the wrist ones are not ready for primetime) ... Then instead of focusing just on the one reading that I get in my office, I'm faced with a dozen readings, so I can get to a better conclusion about whether or not this person should, in fact, be treated."
This Man Is A Hero
Maurice Hilleman developed vaccines for measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia and Haemophilus influenzae, among many others. He saved more lives than any other scientist during the 20th century.
and yet people refuse to take them because of mindless conspiracy theories
Before And After Surgery For Blount's Disease
Really happy for her to be able to stand and walk. Modern surgery techniques are awesome.
Another thing Gorfinkel is psyched about is messenger RNA technology. "Most people think about mRNA only in terms of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines. True, they've saved millions of lives at this point. But I think we can look forward to years in advance where they'll continue to save millions of lives, and not just from COVID but from other diseases as well," the doctor said.
"Here's a little-known factoid: messenger RNA research began 30 years ago ... Pfizer was focusing their research on influenza, prior to COVID, and when the pandemic began, they basically pivoted to all the efforts on COVID instead. However, they are returning to that research on influenza ... and with the messenger RNA technology, we could maybe even come up with a universal influenza vaccine that's long been a goal of medical science."
The Medical Staff Of An Organ-Donation Operation Bow To Pay Tribute To 17-Year-Old Female Organ Donor Who Has Saved Multiple Human Lives
It would be bitter-sweet. Whilst one person had lost their life, others have been saved.
Incredible Well Performed Face Transplant
There's another technology that might be coming to a doctor near you which can really accelerate the use of various handheld devices. "Imagine ultrasound technology in a GP's office," Gorfinkel said. "Right now, when GPs want to know what's happening in a person's body, they have to send them to a separate radiology lab where they have to make an appointment, and sometimes wait weeks to get that appointment, and then come back for their answers. But imagine in very Star Trek fashion that a doctor could pull out an ultrasound probe. It should allow us to take a look at our phone and diagnose things like ectopic pregnancy, diagnose why a person has a heart murmur, diagnose acute appendicitis, pneumonia... And if you think I'm talking Star Trek, actually, I'm not. This technology exists. And medical students in modern schools are being taught how to use it."
The doctor said that even though it might sound paradoxical, she's most excited about changing the mundane. The steps that might seem simple can often snowball into big differences.
This Can Save Many Lives. 12 Signs Of Breast Cancer
Cleft Lip And Cleft Palate. Two Weeks Post Surgery
Me And My Grandpa In Medical School 70 Years Apart (Equally Sleep Deprived)
The moderators of the subreddit were also kind enough to have a little chat with us about the content they curate. "The r/MEDizzy community connects premeds, medical students, nurses, doctors, paramedics, people who want to pursue medical careers in the future, as well as regular medical passionates who are interested in medicine," they told Bored Panda.
Together, they share all kinds of information but according to those in charge of the subreddit, the most popular topics on r/MEDizzy could be categorized into two groups: medical cases, published by those who have a medical background, and posts in which non-medical subscribers share cases of themselves or their family members.
I Was The First And Youngest Baby In Victoria Australia To Recieve A Liver Transplant. I'm 24 Years Post Transplant Now!
This Photograph Shows The Dramatic Differences In Two Boys Who Were Exposed To The Same Smallpox Source – One Was Vaccinated, One Was Not.
2 Surgeons After Successfully Removing A Set Of Brain Tumors During A 32 Hour Surgery
Don't blame them. Although I thought surgeons changed hands a few times in long surgeries. Not saying they still wouldn't be exhausted if that was the case. The concentration and precision would take up a lot of mental energy, let alone the physical energy used from standing and fiddly work etc.
"As moderators, we do our best to keep the overall quality of posts as high as possible. Thankfully, our community is very active in reporting content that violates our (or general Reddit) rules. One of the most popular violations is self-harm posts or gore posts with no case description. Of course, there are many inappropriate comments we have to remove from the comment section as well, but I think it is common in every Reddit community," they explained.
It's worth mentioning that MEDizzy is a project that expands well beyond Reddit. For example, there's a MEDizzy mobile app (that works both on Android and Apple devices) where medical students and healthcare professionals share useful medical resources and the MEDizzy Journal where they provide up-to-date articles from the medicine world.
Second Degree Skin Burn Before And After "Spray-On Skin" Treatment
Got this off Reddit: Doctors carried out a "revolutionary" new treatment where they made a solution from Zed's own skin cells and sprayed it over his burns. And just four months after the life-changing treatment Zed's burns have completely disappeared - leaving him scar free. Spray-on skin is a patented skin culturing treatment for burns victims, developed by scientist Marie Stoner and plastic surgeon Dr Fiona Wood of Perth, Western Australia. Wood's treatment is under ongoing development. Where previous techniques of skin culturing required 21 days to produce enough cells to cover major burns, Wood has reduced the period to five days. Through research, she found that scarring is greatly reduced if replacement skin could be provided within 10 days. Dr Wood's reported goal is "scarless woundless healing".
Before & After Facial Transplantation
While An Adult May Be Able To Use One Prosthetic For A Decade, A Child Will Likely Require Several Prosthetics In That Same Time Period
“I Work In A Hospital. This Is The Aftermath Of A Trauma. He Lived”
Lightning Strike Survivor
This Is In 1987, Zbigniew Religa After A 23 Hour Heart Transplant, Watching His Patient’s Vital Signs. In The Lower Right Corner, You Can See One Of His Colleagues Who Helped Him With The Surgery Fallen Asleep
Mri Scans Of A Boy Born With Only 2% Of His Brain And 2 Years Later. His Brain Regrew To 80% Of Its Intended Size And He Only Suffers From Comparably Small Cognitive Deficits Today
According To My Doctor I Was The First Person In The World To Receive A 3D Printed Bone In 2014. Without It, I Would Have Lost My Knee
I Had A Brain Tumor Removed, And Now I’m A Bit Absent Minded
When The Husband Supports His Wife During Childbirth!
Love her smile.... I was supporting my wife twice and it was a great experience
This Is Jc Sheitan Tenet, From Lyon, France. He Is A Tattoo Artist Amputee Who Uses A Prosthetic Tattoo Gun At Work!
glad that he didn't let his disability deter him from getting his dream job!
Heterochromia Is A Difference In Coloration, Usually Of The Iris But Also Of Hair Or Skin.
Testing Davinci Surgical Robot On Operation Game
Heart Transplant! Bad Heart Going Out And A New Heart Going In!
This Is What The Nerves Related To The Teeth Look Like
Doctors Find 27 Contact Lenses Stuck In 67-Year-Old Woman’s Eye
The Difference Jaw Surgery And Rhinoplasty Made On This Woman
This Is What An Eye Looks Like After Keratoprosthesis: A Surgical Procedure Where A Diseased Cornea Is Replaced With An Artificial Cornea
Vintage Nurses Give Jaundiced Babies Some Sunshine Treatment
This Condition Is Called Mirror Hand Syndrome, Less Than 100 Cases Have Ever Been Diagnosed And The Cause Is Still Unknown
Fully Inflated Horse Lungs
Ladybug Found In The Transverse Colon During Screening Colonoscopy
Case Study Of Tetanus In An Unvaccinated Child
And That’s Why You Wear A Hard Hat
Extracted Tooth With Intact Nerve Root - Super Rare
Man Coughs Up Huge Blood Clot Shaped Like A Lung - Full Case
If the clot didn't kill me, the heart attack after seeing that would.
This White "Soap" Is The First 3D Printed Bionic Pancreas
Case Of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
Breast Implant Saves A Life!a Recent Study Published In Sage Medical Journal Describes The Case Of A 30-Year-Old Woman Whose Silicone Breast Implant Deflected A Bullet, Saving Her Life In The Process - Medical Case
a Scanning Electron Micrograph Of A Natural Killer Cell Facing Off Against A Larger Cancer Cell
Cerebro-Spinal Nervous System
A Peanut Lodged Inside A Child's Trachea
Dealing With A Lung Infection And Coughed Up A Bronchial Cast - A Mucosal Plug That Retained The Shape Of The Bronchioles It Came Out Of
You See All Kinds Of Shit In The Emergency Room, Don't You
Usually when a constrictor has actuality bitten and coiled around something, they won't/ can't let go. Snakes teeth face backwards which makes it harder for them to release. And they will keep constricting until there is no longer a pulse. So this woman needs help removing the snake or risk losing her arm from lack of circulation.
Syphilis Of The Skull. Venereal Diseases
Safe sex, people. This disease is still around, still infecting people, in the "First World".
Three Kidneys Discovered In A Man! - Medical Case
Sounds like someone is meant to be a kidney donor. I hope he considers it!
My (Nearly 60 Y/O) Fathers Arm After Being Thwomped By A Cow This Morning
What A Person Wearing -108 Diopter Glasses Looks Like
Polydactyly Surgery - Full Case
A Rare Case Of Parasitic Twin Seen In An 11 Year-Old Girl Named Yin Xin, Of Changzhi Town, Shanxi Province, China In 2007
I just thought of that scene in Harry Potter you know the one with the other face on the back of the head
16 Year Old Boy Survived After Being Implanted In The Head By A Fishing Spear
33kg Ovarian Cyst - Full Case
For the curious as to why they let it get that big. No access to healthcare. No money to pay for the surgery. But, my ovarian cyst grew from the size of a lemon to nearly twice the size of a basketball in a little less than two months. Once they start growing, they continue exponentially. How do they get them out when they are that large? They fillet you like a fish. My scar runs from just below my ribs, around my bellybutton and to the top of the pubic bone. It will take a year to recover from this surgery.
Case Of A Subconjunctival Bleeding In An Otherwise Healthy Child
That happened a kid i was babysitting. Saw it pop and fill with blood. The 6yo didnt feel a thing. Called the emergency line and was told it was harmless. Scared the s**t out me, was 12 at the time.
Blood Sample From My Patient With Hypertriglyceridemia
Baby Born With Two Mouths!- Medical Case
Cirsoid Aneurysm: Complicated Vascular Network In Scalp - Medical Case
I thought I recognized him, but the blurred eye totally hid his identity.
Triphalangeal Thumb (Tpt) Is A Congenitalmalformation Where The Thumb Has Three Phalanges Instead Of Two. The Extra Phalangeal Bone Can Vary In Size From That Of A Small Pebble To A Size Comparable To The Phalanges In Non-Thumb Digits
2 Years Post Op Spinal Fusion. Yeah, That's Me
Not if you have scoliosis. I have both kinds and I am post surgery since 1985. I was the first adult in the us older than 18, to have the Harrington rod type of surgery. Thank you Shriners. They did my release surgery a week before my 18th, and my rods a week after. I've had children and everything I wanted to do. It's miracle surgery.
Foetus Developing In The Womb. Incredible Work By Lennart Nilsson Who Pioneered The Use Of Endoscopy And Took Pictures Inside The Human Body
Most of the iconic pics was taken on aborted or miscarried babies in a studio, taken there without the mothers consent. Working with dead embryos allowed him to do lighting, background and positions, such as placing the thumb into the fetus’ mouth.
Can Blood Be Blue? - Medical Case
How My Underbite Was Fixed Over The Course Of Two Years By Constant Tension From Rubberbands Attached To Hooks That Were Screwed Into My Jawbones
Transilluminating Newborn’s Head, Affected By Herpes Simplex Virus (Hsv), Leading To Encephalitis And Causing Extensive Damage To The Cerebral Tissue Which Then Gets Replaced By The Saclike Accumulation Of Fluid, Thus The Transillumination - Full Case
Skin Tests For Allergies
Horrible tests if you have a lot of allergies like myself and the person pictured.
Raynaud's Phenomenon. It Is A Medical Condition In Which Spasm Of Arteries Cause Episodes Of Reduced Blood Flow
I have this and its so weird, some of my fingers or toes will turn white or dark purple or grey 😬
Abdominal-Wall Varices In The Budd–chiari Syndrome
A 37-Year-Old Man Came To The Dermatology Clinic With Complaints Of Skin Lesions Which Were Present Since Birth - Medical Case
From the source: “The man’s disease was diagnosed to be phakomatosis pigmentokeratotica. Squamous cell carcinoma was excised, and the patient was under scheduled surveillance and regular cancer screening to avoid complications as this rare disease has high risk of developing cancer, which can involve other organs too, besides skin.“
414-Pound Gorilla On The Exam Table
Eyes That Have Seen A Nuclear Blast. Hiroshima, Japan; August 8, 1945
The spray on skin for burn victims is amazing. I hope this continues to develop.
I've seen a lot of things in my career because of one particular hospital I worked at. But this? Much of it fascinating. Some of it cruelty of disease or accident. Medicine/surgery has come and continues to advance at such a rapid rate. Hopefully a cure for some of these diseases will come soon. But one of them would probably be considered an "orphan" disease. Not many people have it so unfortunately not many scientists are working on it. Not enough money to fund the research because there's no profit in it. Common science! Companies and especially rich.people! Fund the research because it's the compassionate thing to do.
Yes, for my diseases there is not a cure yet, not many people who have it, let alone both diseases (though not like one in a million type) and there is no funding anymore for medical studies to try and find new cures. My last medical study ended in 2011, my last change to give a slight bit of a pain relief was 2016. I want more research for cures! I don't want to live with these extremely painful diseases for the rest of my life. They have caused and made beautiful things happen, which I am extremely grateful for! But it being called a suic*de disease, being the highest on a medical pain scale (only one of the two diseases, the other one is extremely painful too), I want to get rid of my pain. I don't care about other obstacles my diseases/disabilities bring, I just want to be pain-free or just have a manageable amount of pain. I want FUNDING! Well the medical world keeps evolving, so let's hope in the upcoming years, something will be found anyway!
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The spray on skin for burn victims is amazing. I hope this continues to develop.
I've seen a lot of things in my career because of one particular hospital I worked at. But this? Much of it fascinating. Some of it cruelty of disease or accident. Medicine/surgery has come and continues to advance at such a rapid rate. Hopefully a cure for some of these diseases will come soon. But one of them would probably be considered an "orphan" disease. Not many people have it so unfortunately not many scientists are working on it. Not enough money to fund the research because there's no profit in it. Common science! Companies and especially rich.people! Fund the research because it's the compassionate thing to do.
Yes, for my diseases there is not a cure yet, not many people who have it, let alone both diseases (though not like one in a million type) and there is no funding anymore for medical studies to try and find new cures. My last medical study ended in 2011, my last change to give a slight bit of a pain relief was 2016. I want more research for cures! I don't want to live with these extremely painful diseases for the rest of my life. They have caused and made beautiful things happen, which I am extremely grateful for! But it being called a suic*de disease, being the highest on a medical pain scale (only one of the two diseases, the other one is extremely painful too), I want to get rid of my pain. I don't care about other obstacles my diseases/disabilities bring, I just want to be pain-free or just have a manageable amount of pain. I want FUNDING! Well the medical world keeps evolving, so let's hope in the upcoming years, something will be found anyway!
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