50 People Share The Most Bone-Chilling Medical Facts That Might Give You Goosebumps

I highly recommend the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” It’s really fascinating

Black women have saved this country in so many ways.

I read her story (the book is excellent ) many years ago so I'm having trouble recalling the details, but I question the part about the doctor making millions. I believe the cells were originally share for research purposes (not arguing that billions in profit were realized over the long term). But the original doctor probably didn't even know the scale/significance of what he had encountered at the time. Now Henrietta Lacks' existence and uniqueness is immortal just like her cells. Edited bc I had another thought. Could also be that there was an understanding that stuff like this could happen at research hospital such as Johns Hopkins where this occurred. I would be outraged if she was left untreated/harmed by the hospital but again, she likely passed and her family departed long before the uniqueness of the cells were realized.

I don't think celebrated is the right word. After all, she didn't really do anything. But she should be acknowledged and yes, her story should be taught.

She was literally that one in a gazillion people! Incredible

When I was learning about virology and cell-lines, my teacher told us specifically about these cells, how much good they have done and that, at that time, the family was still fighting to see any form of restitution. These cell-lines where slightly altered and sold for millions of profit and not even a penny for the family.

I've taught my grandkids about her; who she was, her unknowing contribution to humanity, and the greed and unfairness of some doctors.

I am a misanthrope, so given the choice of rotting uselessly in the ground or being used to save lives, i prefer the former

Pretty sure he was institutionalized too for it (if my memory is correct, which it probably isn’t)

NPR did a piece on him a while back. They said he didn't really understand the germ theory of disease or the disinfecting power of chlorine. He thought he was battling "cadaverous particles" from autopsies, and he thought a chlorine solution for hand-washing would get rid of any lingering corpse smell. What's really interesting is the reason why his innovation was rejected despite its clinical success: his colleagues felt that it put the blame for "childbed fever" onto them.

Semmelweis moved back to his homeland Hungary and died of the same infection je was trying to prevent after being shunned in Vienna.

Yeah wasn't he kicked out of surgery and doomed to spend time in the maternal ward or one of those least desirable sections?

Well many alternative and faith based healing practices have no self correcting method at all. At least science has gradually fixed its mistakes over the years. As long as the humans involved are honest and not scammer quacks.

Good grief.

I am still absolutely baffled when I see people posting online about taking their infant to the chiropractor, what in the actual hell??? I really wish they would ban it in the US too

Who in the name of Jesus would take a baby to a chiropractor???

If chiropractice was real ( its not ) , why would you take a child. The whole ( flawed) premise is your back gets " out of alignment" , do why would a child need this?

Horrible

Whhaaat????

Met a chiropractor from South Africa practising in the UK. She gave me her card and it had Dr on, so I asked her what her PhD was in. She replied that chiropractors are doctors because they heal people and I said that's not what the word means. It's not recommended by the chiropractors association in the UK to use the title of Doctor, personally I think it should be illegal

I've heard that chiropractors are quacks from a chiropractor lol.

Besides the Nazis, Unit 731 is a prime example. As is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

Let us not waste the death and suffering of so many.

Nothing of any value was learned by the atrocities done by Nazi doctors. They just tortured people.

You SUPPOSE?

In general war contributed to a lot of advancements, usually not for the right reasons initially sadly

and the 'man shall not lie with man' passage was a mistranslation.

may I remind everyone that jesus was a feminist

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Jesus said "Thou shall not k**l". The Bible also mentions "knit me together in my mother's womb". If you're gonna use a religion you don't even believe in, at least know wtf you're talking about.

Our bodies are temporary, our souls are forever. BIG difference.

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Maybe try reading the whole Bible before you demonstrate how much you actually know about it: Nothing.

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Yet he upheld what is said in the Old Testament. He knew the scriptures inside out. Anyone who caused the death of a fetus or unborn child was subject to the death penalty. Now, if surgery is necessary to save the mother's life, it's a personal decision.

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This is BS. Jesus literally reference when David said that he(David) was a sinner the moment he was conceived. The implication both in the old and new testament is that the soul is sinful from the moment of conception, meaning that the soul is present from conception on. The Christian argument is that once a soul exits, preventing that soul from being born is the same as killing a person, ie, murder. Christianity does not care what shape or size a the body a soul is in, a soul is a soul; a person is a person, and life is life.

I also believe in life at conception, but I’m a practising Shintoist, so in a way everything has a life and soul, just sometimes different to how we perceive it. Just cos it went from baby to tumor doesn’t make it any less alive.

Out of curiosity, what do you believe Jesus said about this? What did he say?

He also said "thou shall not k**l" and the Bible mentions "knit me together in my mother's womb". Please, it's embarrassing.

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It's more than just stupid - it's cruel. I saw an article after one of these incidents that quoted a doctor who said that he'd gotten phone calls from distraught patients who'd had wanted ectopic pregnancies removed, asking him why he hadn't offered them the option to 'reimplant' the pregnancy, and he had to explain to them that it was baloney.