Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 209

LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 209. Question 1 Who wrote in their journal “I did not sleep at all last night. It hurts like the devil! A snowstorm whipping through my soul, wailing like a hundred jackals. Still no obvious symptoms that perforation is imminent, but an oppressive feeling of foreboding hangs over me … This is it … I have to think through the only possible way out: to operate on myself … It’s almost impossible … but I can’t just fold my arms and give up”? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1994735598'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1994735598')) Dr Leonid Rogozov, a Russian surgeon based in Antartica 1961 who hours later removed his own appendix and survived. He continued to live until the year 2000. [Reference]  Question 2 While at a family function Dr Alison Seymour informed me that a certain percentage of the population can not detect the scent of Freesias, as high as 10% in certain groups. But, what can some doctors not smell that may delay a common endocrine disease? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('d...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Anosmia Antartica appendicitis body packing Boring and Boring cocaine Edwin Boring Freesias ketones Leonid Rogozov Lucy Boring sleep temporal reference toponymous disease Source Type: blogs