However, they would respond only to amber light, so the patient wore a pair of goggles with a video camera on the front and a projector on the back, to capture what was happening in the real world and project a version in the right wavelength onto the back of the eye. BBC News –… Read More »
A rare syndrome caused a 44-year-old man’s eye to eerily resemble the flaming Eye of Sauron from “The Lord of the Rings.” The case came to light when the man, who was not identified in a report recently detailed in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), went to an eye clinic to reestablish care… Read More »
Overworked doctor trying to focus. Getty Graduating from medical school in 1978, I started my hellish internship while reading Samuel Shem’s classic, “The House of G-d,” a scathing indictment of medical education and the mercenary incentives in patient care. I found it shocking, crude at times and disillusioning—but at its core, absolutely correct about what… Read More »
When Abhishek Malik was diagnosed with tongue cancer at just 22 years old, doctors were stumped. “I have no history of smoking or cancer in the family, so it was pretty much out of the blue,” the now 25-year-old from Western Sydney said. A few weeks earlier he had noticed a small sore on his… Read More »