What is the greatest medical mystery?
What is the greatest medical mystery?
Seven unsolved medical mysteries
- Water allergy. This may sound impossible – considering that our bodies are around 60% water – but some rare individuals are allergic to water.
- Chimeric people.
- Foreign accent syndrome.
- Morgellons disease.
- The madness of King George.
- Putrid finger.
- Tree man.
What is the weirdest medical case?
The strangest medical cases of 2020
- Green urine. (Image credit: The New England Journal of Medicine ©2020)
- Cold allergy. (Image credit: Shutterstock)
- Lethal licorice. (Image credit: Shutterstock)
- Pierced heart. (Image credit: Shutterstock)
- Bladder brewery.
- Wandering spleen.
- Persistent coronavirus.
- Three kidneys.
What is medical mystery?
Mystery of the Week is designed to help students, residents, and physicians in practice build upon their knowledge of differential diagnosis and clinical skills and to apply this knowledge at the bedside. Each week a new case is presented along with the answer to last weeks case.
Who writes medical mysteries?
Pandemics, Epidemics, Viruses and Medical Mysteries
- The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton.
- Coma, by Robin Cook.
- The Poisoner’s Handbook, by Deborah Blum.
- The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston.
- Strange Practice, by Vivian Shaw.
- The Line Between, by Tosca Lee.
- The Great Influenza, by John Barry.
- Life Support, by Tess Gerritsen.
What are some rare medical conditions?
Five rare diseases you never knew existed
- Stoneman Syndrome. Frequency: one in two million people.
- Alice In Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS) Frequency: currently unknown.
- Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) Frequency: one in four million.
- Alkaptonuria.
- Chronic Focal Encephalitis (Rasmussen’s Encephalitis)
Do doctors believe in miracle?
You might be surprised. A new national survey of 1,005 physicians revealed that 75 percent of them say that miracles can occur these days. That’s higher than two years ago when 70 percent of doctors interviewed said they believed in miracles.
How do you present an interesting medical case?
TEACHING TIPS: TWELVE TIPS FOR MAKING CASE PRESENTATIONS MORE INTERESTING *
- SET THE STAGE.
- PROVIDE ONLY INITIAL CUES AT FIRST.
- ASK FOR HYPOTHESES AND WRITE THEM UP ON THE BLACKBOARD.
- ALLOW THE AUDIENCE TO ASK FOR INFORMATION.
- HAVE THE AUDIENCE RE-FORMULATE THEIR LIST OF HYPOTHESES.
- FACILITATE A DISCUSSION ABOUT REASONING.
What are examples of medical conditions?
Chronic medical conditions
- Alzheimer’s disease.
- Arthritis.
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Depression.
- Diabetes.
- Heart disease.
- High blood pressure.
- High cholesterol.
Why can’t doctors find what’s wrong with me?
An undiagnosed disease is one or more medical problems that doctors haven’t been able to identify a cause for. Often, this means the underlying disease is rare — which is why no one was able to identify it.
How do I get the medical mystery quest?
The mission is obtained from Dr. Zed, in Sanctuary. The objective is to find Doc Mercy in Shock Fossil Cavern, and kill him to find out the truth about his mysterious weapon and the wounds it has caused to his patients.
Is Maura Isles in the surgeon?
She introduced Detective Jane Rizzoli in The Surgeon (2001) and Dr. Maura Isles in The Apprentice (2002) and has gone on to write numerous other titles in the celebrated Rizzoli & Isles series, most recently The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, and Die Again.
Who is the best medical thriller author?
If you like stories set outside the ER, you’ll love Adverse Effects and these seven other medical thrillers.
- Outbreak by Robin Cook.
- Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell.
- The Fifth Vial by Michael Palmer.
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.
- The Select by F. Paul Wilson.
- Blood Moon by Peter Palmieri.
- Gravity by Tess Gerritsen.
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