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May 25, 2020

TIL that in Germany, a doctor diagnosed a case of cobalt poisoning because the symptoms matched a case shown in an episode of Dr. House, and that he wrote a book on how to apply Dr. House's diagnosis in real life.

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Apr 10, 2020

TIL Canadian researchers watched 40 episodes of 'The Dr. Oz Show' and found that nearly 40% of the medical advice is not evidence-based, and 15% goes directly against evidence.

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Mar 14, 2020

TIL A 'cancer patient' underwent surgery to remove a lump in his lungs. It turned out to be caused by a toy traffic cone he inhaled 40 years ago. He did not have cancer after all.

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Nov 29, 2019

TIL a pharmacist misread a woman’s prescription for dry eye medication and gave her a cream for erectile dysfunction instead. The woman suffered temporary chemical injuries to her eyes.

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todayilearned

Nov 04, 2019

TIL there is no such thing as "dying of old age", and you won't see this term written on a death certificate. Most older people actually die of pneumonia.

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Sep 07, 2019

TIL Willem Kolff created the first dialysis machine in the Netherlands during WWII. Lacking materials, he used sausage casings, tin cans, a washing machine, and salt water. He also saved more than 800 people from the Nazis by hiding them in his hospital. And he later invented the artificial heart.

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Aug 01, 2019

TIL a drug company tried to avoid legal challenges to one of its patents by transferring its patent rights to a Native American tribe (and exclusively licensing them back) so they could claim sovereign immunity against any patent lawsuits. It didn't work.

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Jul 30, 2019

TIL that after hurricane Katrina, 45 patients died at Memorial Hospital, several of them of suspected euthanasia

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todayilearned

May 25, 2019

TIL that in Germany, a doctor diagnosed a case of cobalt poisoning because the symptoms matched a case shown in an episode of Dr. House, and that he wrote a book on how to apply Dr. House's diagnosis in real life.

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todayilearned

Apr 26, 2019

TIL in a Johns Hopkins Survey, 90 percent of doctors said they'd rather die by cardiac arrest than be resuscitated. Only a quarter of the public feels the same way.

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