80 Medical Pics That Are Interesting, But Might Make You Gag: "Total Spinal Fusion"

Why are some of us so compelled to stare at unsettling photos and videos of things that we'd prefer not to see in real life? A bloody scene from Grey's Anatomy, or a putrid peek at Dr. Pimple Popper squeezing pus-filled blemishes. It's like we can't help ourselves, even if our stomachs are churning.

Some scientists believe it's because viewing such content from a safe distance allows us to be both disgusted and curious at the same time. Both are evolutionary feelings. And both can protect us. But more on that later...

First, we're going to test your ability hold down your breakfast while scrolling through some rather unsettling medical images. From a really creepy-looking medical dummy, to an x-ray of a brain after a piece has been removed... Bored Panda has put together a list of "look away but not quite yet" medical photographs shared by people online. Each image tells its own story, and all provide a window into a world that we wouldn't ordinarily see.

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A Doctor’s Letter To United Heathcare For Denying Nausea Medication To A Child On Chemotherapy

Letter from doctor criticizing insurance company on chemotherapy side effects, showcasing raw medical photos with disturbing impact.

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80 Times The Human Body Surprised And Horrified Medical Professionals

A Doctor’s Letter To United Heathcare For Denying Nausea Medication To A Child On Chemotherapy

An Artist Is Doing A Really Cool Thing By Painting Baby's Medical Helmets

My Adhd Medication Came With A Fidget Toy

This Is The First Complete Nervous System Ever Dissected - 1887

Ducklings Being Used In Medical Therapy, 1956

I Had A Brain Tumor Removed, And Now I’m A Bit Absent Minded

Fish Skin Is Being Used To Help Treat Burn Victims

These Medical Cloves Designed For Medical Emergency Response

Medical Chest I Found In My Grandfathers Attic

This White "Soap" Is The First 3D Printed Bionic Pancreas

Perfectly Lined Up Sternotomy Sealing, The Surgeon Is Amazing

An Identity Thief Stole The Identity Of A Surgeon And While Aboard A Navy Destroyer Was Tasked With Performing Several Life Saving Surgeries

Uncle's Eye Healed After Corneal Transplant Surgery

A Doctor’s Office On My Delivery Route Has A Real Ww1 Medical Kit Framed Up On The Wall

X-Ray Of A Hand With Advanced Rheumatoid Arthiritis

The Amount Of Medication I Have To Take In A Week After A Kidney Transplant

Testing Davinci Surgical Robot On Operation Game

Thought You All Might Appreciate My Uncommon Stitches

This Device To Help Medical Professionals Find Veins. The Veinviewer

Before & After A Total Spinal Fusion

Obsidian Knives Made From A Type Of Volcanic Glass Are So Sharp They Cut On A Cellular Level

In My Head, The Screws From My Spinal Fusion Surgery Looked A Lot Smaller

This Condition Is Called Mirror Hand Syndrome, Less Than 100 Cases Have Ever Been Diagnosed And The Cause Is Still Unknown

The Monthly Dosage Of Medication Necessary For My Survival

This Is A UV Light Used In Hospitals To Decontaminate Rooms That Were Occupied By Patients With Particularly Resistant Bacteria Or Bugs

My (Nearly 60 Y/O) Fathers Arm After Being Thwomped By A Cow This Morning

The Medical Pathology Museum At Tokyo University Has A Collection Of 105 Full-Bodied Tattoo Skins

There's A Tooth In My Chin

My Grandmother's Student Medical Kit From 1925

Finger Infected. Thermal Imaging Confirms

Asteroid Hyalosis Is A Medical Condition In Which The Person's Eyes Look Like The Universe

The Body Of A Gymnast While Preforming A Trick

Atlantic Horseshoe Crabs Have A Milky Blue Blood. Each Year, Millions Of Crabs Are Captured, Bled And Released

Strands Of DNA Precipitated By Ethanol. About 3 Trillion Of Them

Patient Got Bit By A Stray Dog, And This Is His Rabies Vaccine And Immune Globulin Set Up

My Dog And I Are Taking The Same Medication

Doctors Find 27 Contact Lenses Stuck In 67-Year-Old Woman’s Eye

My Sister Teaches Nursing Students How To Do Medical Procedures. Here Is One Of Their Practice Dummies

Münchmeyer Disease Is A Disorder In Which Muscle Tissue And Connective Tissue Such As Tendons And Ligaments Are Gradually Replaced By Bone

Went To Get A Scan For Practicing Medical Students (I Was A Volunteer Modle)

Scleroderma Hands Manifestations

In Certain Cultures, Wounds Were Sutured Using Ants, Especially Army Or Leaf-Cutter Species

Just Cleanly Removed The Entire Nerve From My Patient’s Tooth (On Purpose)

Triphalangeal Thumb (TPT) Is A Congenitalmalformation Where The Thumb Has Three Phalanges Instead Of Two

My Cat’s Medication Says Not To Drink Alcohol With It

This Medication Causes Birth Defects And They Don’t Want You To Forget

One Of Four Intact Human Nervous Systems, This Was Dissected By 2 Medical Students In 1925 — And It Took Them Over 1,500 Hours To Remove

Bungee Cord To The Eye Caused Man's Iris To Collapse Into Multiple Deformed Pupils

As Photography Became More Common, An Odd Tradition Emerged — Medical Students Taking Pictures With Their Cadavers As Sort Of A First Portrait Into The Medical Field

Three Kidneys Discovered In A Man! - Medical Case

Specialist Dentist Said I Had Some Of The Longest Teeth He’s Ever Removed

WW1 Canadian Battlefield Medical Kit

An X-Ray Of A Hand With Six Fingers

Dupuytren's Contracture Symptoms

Stingray Tail, Extracted From Patient After Accident, Nz

A Peanut Lodged Inside A Child's Trachea

Sterile #2 Pencils In The Operating Room

My Friend's Skin Graft After Healing

My Dissection Kit For Working On Human Cadavers In Medical School

Doctors From The Texas Heart Institute Have Performed A Surgery Implementing A Device That Left A Man Becoming The World's First Heartless Human Leaving Him Without A Pulse Or Detectable Heart Beat

$8,500 Worth Of Medical Equipment In The Us. My Son Needs These To Walk

My Medication Is So Strictly Controlled That It Has A Battery Powered Tracking Tag

This Is A Condition Called Hyperdontia

My TPN (Nutrition Pumped Into My Heart) Has Olive Oil And Egg In It

1915 Medical Text Classifying People With Mental Disabilities

My Father Was An Eye Doctor And Those Are The Glass Eye Prosthesis He Would Show The Patients

2 Hair Follicles Grown In Eye Caused By Limbal Dermoid

Vintage Medical Tools For Removing Kidney And Bladder Stones And The Stones That They Removed

This Medication I Take Is $6000 Per An Injection

When My Son Was Born He Had A Knot In His Umbilical Cord

Itemized Hospital Bill From When My Dad Was Born In 1954

The Colors Of Disposable Lab Coats Available From The Supplier My Hospital Uses

Dentists Of 1950 Starter Kit: (Actually Part Of My Antique Medical Equipment Collection)

In The United States, This Is What $14,714.49 Of Medication Looks Like

An Incredible Medical Projector

Neovascular Festoons On The Iris

My Medicine Tells Me That It Doesn't Work

To Study The Medical Effects Of Weightlessness In Space, Scientists Convinced Captain Druey P. Parks To Toss A Kitten In The Air While Cruising In His F-94c Jet At An Altitude Of 25,000 Feet

Veneers Preparation