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Hygiene used to be completely optional. Early surgeons proudly wore heavy black frock coats specifically because the dark fabric successfully hid all the…
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Surgeons are essentially bio-hoarders. Unless your original kidneys are actively causing life-threatening infections, doctors just cram the new donor kidney…
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Why do modern doctors strongly warn against using classic hydrogen peroxide to clean out fresh cuts and scrapes?
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Society decided these extra molars were a plague, but plenty of jaws have room for them. Unless they are actively growing sideways or causing severe crowding,…
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If you thought you permanently evicted those useless lumps of lymphoid tissue when you were seven years old, check your throat again. Tonsils are incredibly…
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To figure out exactly which fold of grey matter controls your left thumb, Dr. Wilder Penfield took a terrifyingly direct approach: electrocuting the exposed…
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