Minor Malorum Duorum

Maybe this is crime and not medicine. I dunno. So some folks at a rave are permanently blinded. And not by bad sartorial choices.

I suspect I'm the most eyeball-sensitive reader of Scylla, but just a warning that reading the science made me a little gaggy. YMMV.

This woman died of a heart attack, and was revived, and died again. 17 hours without neurological function, at least. Rigor mortis had already set in... Life support was withdrawn, at which point she sat up and started talking. She's fine now.

A hiker in Phoenix was attacked by a swarm of bees, and consequently fell off the trail into a ravine lined with cactus and rocks. Oh, and it was a 110° day. The rescue team had to put on bee suits to airlift his ass outta there.

So... that sucks.

Apparently, you can scan a brain and see the after effects of molestation. (In this context, specifically, visible differences in the scanned brains of suiciders who had been abused, versus those who had not.)

Whoa.

A Russian guy was out drinking with his buddy.... who stabbed him ... and didn't actually know about the knife until his wife saw the handle sticking out of his back.

... Unless you want to be killed and chopped up for magic. At least the president is calling for a crack-down on witchdoctors doing naughty things to albinos?

It's impressive to think about a man being pregnant. It's slightly less impressive when you know he used to be a woman, before the sex reassignment surgery. (I guess they missed a spot?) but, none the less, it's still wrong.

Wait, actually, they're not:

A U.S. government-funded medical information site that bills itself as the world's largest database on reproductive health has quietly begun to block searches on the word "abortion," concealing nearly 25,000 search results.

And, unrelatedly, every time I get an article off Wired's Threat Level, I am amused to see where they file these articles:

blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/a-government-fu.html

Wired calls them 'hackers', but the better word would probably be 'dicks'. Either way, they posted a bunch of animated gifs and javascripts flashing colors to a board for epileptics.

There's not too much more to the article than that, just a clerical error. Still here's the link! ;)

A German retiree is taking a hospital to court after she went in for a leg operation and got a new anus instead, the Daily Telegraph is reporting.

Apparently her assfat somehow fused into the seat and she spent two years on the can. It's hard to imagine even spending a whole day on the toilet.

A man has regained partial sight after surgeons inserted one of his son's teeth into an eye socket. (I personally would've expected that to be a way to LOSE sight, but what the hell do I know about it?)

Looks like diet soda isn't all it's suppossed to be.

I have to admit a certain grim irony in a substance labelled 'diet' that makes you fat.

A guy in Sweden was convited of a hate crime in '99 and served his sentence. Then, he applied to med school. And got in. And kicked out due to a technicality. But is it okay for doctors to be ex-murderers?

(It's on NYTimes, so you might need a login.)

... it's actually because your doctor might miss it and you'll spend 9 years deaf in that ear. One day, a petrified waxy cotton bud might crawl out of your ear and restore your hearing.