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Plutonium Powered Pacemaker (1974)

#medical #oddities #plutonium #radioactivity

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The icy village where you must remove your appendix

#antarctica #isolated #medical | There’s a settlement in Antarctica with a school, a post office and a huddle of homes. It’s like other sub-zero villages, except for one thing: families must have surgery to move in.

3 years ago | View Shared by victor

Allusionist 45: Eponyms II - Name That Disease — The Allusionist

#diseases #etymology #medical #naming #podcast | If you love eponyms like Roman Mars loves eponyms, I'm afraid physician Isaac Siemens is here to deliver some bad news: medics are ditching them, in favour of terms that a) contain information about what the ailment actually is, and/or b) don't honour Nazi war criminals. Eponyms are controversial things.

8 years ago | View Shared by victor

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