The medical world is second to none. Just last year, for example, a 34-year-old old man developed an allergy to cold air. There was also a Brazilian fella who surprised his doctors with having three kidneys. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There are plenty of memorable cases that continue to surprise us to this day. And you can find most of them on the subreddit r/MEDizzy. It's an online community created for medical professionals to discuss everything and anything that crosses their minds (or operating tables) and it has seen quite a few interesting posts during the 3 years of its existence. Here are some of them.
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James Harrison The "Man With The Golden Arm"
After needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.
General practitioner, medical researcher, and founder of PrimeHealth Clinical Research, Iris Gorfinkel, M.D., told Bored Panda that it might be just a matter of time before we get many more cool medical cases. "I'm excited about a few things," she said. "Let's start with wearable technology. I think this has tremendous importance in medicine. Say a person checks their own blood pressure and brings those readings to the doctor. Blood pressure is a huge thing. It's a major cardiovascular risk factor that is responsible not only for heart attack, but it can also be responsible for stroke, kidney disease, and vascular damage."
"The problem is when patients come into the office, they're nervous, they're sometimes fatigued, they're sometimes depressed, or anxious. And all of these things can cause the blood pressure to go up and give us artificially high readings. But imagine when a patient comes in with a reliable wearable (and I say reliable because the wrist ones are not ready for primetime) ... Then instead of focusing just on the one reading that I get in my office, I'm faced with a dozen readings, so I can get to a better conclusion about whether or not this person should, in fact, be treated."
This Man Is A Hero
Maurice Hilleman developed vaccines for measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia and Haemophilus influenzae, among many others. He saved more lives than any other scientist during the 20th century.
and yet people refuse to take them because of mindless conspiracy theories
He died 2005, I am somewhat glad that he did not have to see todays antivaxxers.
No, but he witnessed the antivaxxers of the 70's and 80's. Antivaxx is not a new phenomenon.
Load More Replies...I’m not wearing my glasses and I read that as ‘viral contribution’ the first time. Guess that still works
Load More Replies...The work of these people are lost because nobody will take a vaccine. This man gave his whole life to cure these terrible diseases, and people just won't take the vaccines due to stupid beliefs/conspiracy theories
There is a saying - the vaccines fell victims of their own success: people forgot about death.
Load More Replies...What a brilliant yet modest man. We so need people of his caliber now.
Dr. Hilleman is awesome. If someone googles him to find out more, I recommend checking out Dr. Norman Borlaug as well. He is an agronomist who won the Nobel Peace Prize for this work actually preventing wars. There are literally several billion alive today because of those two.
Wow. Vaccines of which many of today’s’ antivaxers, have all had, and not batted an eye at having. Go figure why they won’t get the Covid vaccine…
We need to thank Henrietta Lacks and her cells. Without HeLa cells none of those vaccines would have been made as quickly. Look her up (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa) or read the book another her.
I got shingles because I had chicken pox as a kid--I would have loved to have had the chicken pox vaccine. People--get your vaccines!
I tell my kids what these diseases do so they fully understand what happens when a person is sick. The gift we have of protection from these illnesses is impossible to underestimate.
There's a vaccine for pneumonia? Why am I just finding this out now?
Wow how did my 99 year old great grandmother make it this long without a single vaccine, and survived Covid last year? As well as maaaaaaaaaany others.
But... but... but... some random guy on internet said that vaccines are a hoax. So it must be true.
Apparently his determination saves 8 million people every year and he didn't even get the Nobel prize.
And these vaccines have had decades of data behind it. I think a lot of people don't trust the covid vax because although there is "years of research" behind it, there's also only less than 1 year of actual data on HUMAN BEINGS. There are a myriad of side affects that have already come out, bell palsy, myocarditis, seizures, women's menstrual cycles have been screwed up or altogether stopped, etc. but people aren't allowed to talk about their concerns regarding these because then they are accused of being conspiracy theorists. And nobody is allowed to talk about natural immunity either...instead now your body is dependent on this MRNA vaccine in order to fight an illness...its been less than a year and already people are getting booster shots. The Covid vaccine has an efficacy of like 30% now after 7/8 months...how often do you need to continue to get boosters? If people want to get the vax, cool..they should. But if people don't want to, they should have that choice as well.
*Feeble. 5 out of 6 patients on UK intensive care wards with confirmed covid, are guess what? Unvaccinated.
Load More Replies...mate the point of a vaccine is that it is injected through your skin you're going to f*cking get injured no matter what do you even understand the definition of subcutaneous
Load More Replies...And why don't we deserve to be protected from pandemics and terrible diseases, Sarcastic Cow? Maurice is a true hero and saved hundred upon thousands of lives through his vaccine.
Load More Replies...they needed a vaccine, so yes it was rushed. a vaccine isn't a cure, so you clearly are not well informed. people can have allergic reactions to vaccines too
Load More Replies...5 million people have died but sure, it's a "hoax." Idiot.
Load More Replies...Before And After Surgery For Blount's Disease
Another thing Gorfinkel is psyched about is messenger RNA technology. "Most people think about mRNA only in terms of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines. True, they've saved millions of lives at this point. But I think we can look forward to years in advance where they'll continue to save millions of lives, and not just from COVID but from other diseases as well," the doctor said.
"Here's a little-known factoid: messenger RNA research began 30 years ago ... Pfizer was focusing their research on influenza, prior to COVID, and when the pandemic began, they basically pivoted to all the efforts on COVID instead. However, they are returning to that research on influenza ... and with the messenger RNA technology, we could maybe even come up with a universal influenza vaccine that's long been a goal of medical science."
The Medical Staff Of An Organ-Donation Operation Bow To Pay Tribute To 17-Year-Old Female Organ Donor Who Has Saved Multiple Human Lives
Incredible Well Performed Face Transplant
There's another technology that might be coming to a doctor near you which can really accelerate the use of various handheld devices. "Imagine ultrasound technology in a GP's office," Gorfinkel said. "Right now, when GPs want to know what's happening in a person's body, they have to send them to a separate radiology lab where they have to make an appointment, and sometimes wait weeks to get that appointment, and then come back for their answers. But imagine in very Star Trek fashion that a doctor could pull out an ultrasound probe. It should allow us to take a look at our phone and diagnose things like ectopic pregnancy, diagnose why a person has a heart murmur, diagnose acute appendicitis, pneumonia... And if you think I'm talking Star Trek, actually, I'm not. This technology exists. And medical students in modern schools are being taught how to use it."
The doctor said that even though it might sound paradoxical, she's most excited about changing the mundane. The steps that might seem simple can often snowball into big differences.
This Can Save Many Lives. 12 Signs Of Breast Cancer
Cleft Lip And Cleft Palate. Two Weeks Post Surgery
Me And My Grandpa In Medical School 70 Years Apart (Equally Sleep Deprived)
The moderators of the subreddit were also kind enough to have a little chat with us about the content they curate. "The r/MEDizzy community connects premeds, medical students, nurses, doctors, paramedics, people who want to pursue medical careers in the future, as well as regular medical passionates who are interested in medicine," they told Bored Panda.
Together, they share all kinds of information but according to those in charge of the subreddit, the most popular topics on r/MEDizzy could be categorized into two groups: medical cases, published by those who have a medical background, and posts in which non-medical subscribers share cases of themselves or their family members.
I Was The First And Youngest Baby In Victoria Australia To Recieve A Liver Transplant. I'm 24 Years Post Transplant Now!
This Photograph Shows The Dramatic Differences In Two Boys Who Were Exposed To The Same Smallpox Source – One Was Vaccinated, One Was Not.
2 Surgeons After Successfully Removing A Set Of Brain Tumors During A 32 Hour Surgery
"As moderators, we do our best to keep the overall quality of posts as high as possible. Thankfully, our community is very active in reporting content that violates our (or general Reddit) rules. One of the most popular violations is self-harm posts or gore posts with no case description. Of course, there are many inappropriate comments we have to remove from the comment section as well, but I think it is common in every Reddit community," they explained.
It's worth mentioning that MEDizzy is a project that expands well beyond Reddit. For example, there's a MEDizzy mobile app (that works both on Android and Apple devices) where medical students and healthcare professionals share useful medical resources and the MEDizzy Journal where they provide up-to-date articles from the medicine world.
Second Degree Skin Burn Before And After "Spray-On Skin" Treatment
Before & After Facial Transplantation
While An Adult May Be Able To Use One Prosthetic For A Decade, A Child Will Likely Require Several Prosthetics In That Same Time Period
“I Work In A Hospital. This Is The Aftermath Of A Trauma. He Lived”
Lightning Strike Survivor
This Is In 1987, Zbigniew Religa After A 23 Hour Heart Transplant, Watching His Patient’s Vital Signs. In The Lower Right Corner, You Can See One Of His Colleagues Who Helped Him With The Surgery Fallen Asleep
Mri Scans Of A Boy Born With Only 2% Of His Brain And 2 Years Later. His Brain Regrew To 80% Of Its Intended Size And He Only Suffers From Comparably Small Cognitive Deficits Today
According To My Doctor I Was The First Person In The World To Receive A 3D Printed Bone In 2014. Without It, I Would Have Lost My Knee
I Had A Brain Tumor Removed, And Now I’m A Bit Absent Minded
When The Husband Supports His Wife During Childbirth!
This Is Jc Sheitan Tenet, From Lyon, France. He Is A Tattoo Artist Amputee Who Uses A Prosthetic Tattoo Gun At Work!
Heterochromia Is A Difference In Coloration, Usually Of The Iris But Also Of Hair Or Skin.
Testing Davinci Surgical Robot On Operation Game
Heart Transplant! Bad Heart Going Out And A New Heart Going In!
This Is What The Nerves Related To The Teeth Look Like
Doctors Find 27 Contact Lenses Stuck In 67-Year-Old Woman’s Eye
The Difference Jaw Surgery And Rhinoplasty Made On This Woman
This Is What An Eye Looks Like After Keratoprosthesis: A Surgical Procedure Where A Diseased Cornea Is Replaced With An Artificial Cornea
Vintage Nurses Give Jaundiced Babies Some Sunshine Treatment
This Condition Is Called Mirror Hand Syndrome, Less Than 100 Cases Have Ever Been Diagnosed And The Cause Is Still Unknown
Fully Inflated Horse Lungs
Ladybug Found In The Transverse Colon During Screening Colonoscopy
Case Study Of Tetanus In An Unvaccinated Child
And That’s Why You Wear A Hard Hat
Extracted Tooth With Intact Nerve Root - Super Rare
Man Coughs Up Huge Blood Clot Shaped Like A Lung - Full Case
This White "Soap" Is The First 3D Printed Bionic Pancreas
Case Of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
Breast Implant Saves A Life!a Recent Study Published In Sage Medical Journal Describes The Case Of A 30-Year-Old Woman Whose Silicone Breast Implant Deflected A Bullet, Saving Her Life In The Process - Medical Case
a Scanning Electron Micrograph Of A Natural Killer Cell Facing Off Against A Larger Cancer Cell
Cerebro-Spinal Nervous System
A Peanut Lodged Inside A Child's Trachea
Dealing With A Lung Infection And Coughed Up A Bronchial Cast - A Mucosal Plug That Retained The Shape Of The Bronchioles It Came Out Of
You See All Kinds Of Shit In The Emergency Room, Don't You
Syphilis Of The Skull. Venereal Diseases
Three Kidneys Discovered In A Man! - Medical Case
My (Nearly 60 Y/O) Fathers Arm After Being Thwomped By A Cow This Morning
What A Person Wearing -108 Diopter Glasses Looks Like
Polydactyly Surgery - Full Case
The spray on skin for burn victims is amazing. I hope this continues to develop.
I've seen a lot of things in my career because of one particular hospital I worked at. But this? Much of it fascinating. Some of it cruelty of disease or accident. Medicine/surgery has come and continues to advance at such a rapid rate. Hopefully a cure for some of these diseases will come soon. But one of them would probably be considered an "orphan" disease. Not many people have it so unfortunately not many scientists are working on it. Not enough money to fund the research because there's no profit in it. Common science! Companies and especially rich.people! Fund the research because it's the compassionate thing to do.
Yes, for my diseases there is not a cure yet, not many people who have it, let alone both diseases (though not like one in a million type) and there is no funding anymore for medical studies to try and find new cures. My last medical study ended in 2011, my last change to give a slight bit of a pain relief was 2016. I want more research for cures! I don't want to live with these extremely painful diseases for the rest of my life. They have caused and made beautiful things happen, which I am extremely grateful for! But it being called a suic*de disease, being the highest on a medical pain scale (only one of the two diseases, the other one is extremely painful too), I want to get rid of my pain. I don't care about other obstacles my diseases/disabilities bring, I just want to be pain-free or just have a manageable amount of pain. I want FUNDING! Well the medical world keeps evolving, so let's hope in the upcoming years, something will be found anyway!
Load More Replies...Counting my blessings after seeing these pictures. We cannot thank enough for our healthy lives, warts and all.
All thanks to DR HARRY HERBS. who cure me from Herpes with his remedy and now i'm well and strong, his herbs remedy makes me believe is always good to try something new and which i did by trying herbs remedy after been on drugs for long and now i'm from with herbs remedy. and if there's anyone here fighting with the same virus you can kindly reach him for help and be free and cure too Email; Drharryherbspell01@gmail.com website www.Doctorharryherbs.com
A bunch of these are NOT medical cases. Pictures of doctors laying on the floor or in school.
The spray on skin for burn victims is amazing. I hope this continues to develop.
I've seen a lot of things in my career because of one particular hospital I worked at. But this? Much of it fascinating. Some of it cruelty of disease or accident. Medicine/surgery has come and continues to advance at such a rapid rate. Hopefully a cure for some of these diseases will come soon. But one of them would probably be considered an "orphan" disease. Not many people have it so unfortunately not many scientists are working on it. Not enough money to fund the research because there's no profit in it. Common science! Companies and especially rich.people! Fund the research because it's the compassionate thing to do.
Yes, for my diseases there is not a cure yet, not many people who have it, let alone both diseases (though not like one in a million type) and there is no funding anymore for medical studies to try and find new cures. My last medical study ended in 2011, my last change to give a slight bit of a pain relief was 2016. I want more research for cures! I don't want to live with these extremely painful diseases for the rest of my life. They have caused and made beautiful things happen, which I am extremely grateful for! But it being called a suic*de disease, being the highest on a medical pain scale (only one of the two diseases, the other one is extremely painful too), I want to get rid of my pain. I don't care about other obstacles my diseases/disabilities bring, I just want to be pain-free or just have a manageable amount of pain. I want FUNDING! Well the medical world keeps evolving, so let's hope in the upcoming years, something will be found anyway!
Load More Replies...Counting my blessings after seeing these pictures. We cannot thank enough for our healthy lives, warts and all.
All thanks to DR HARRY HERBS. who cure me from Herpes with his remedy and now i'm well and strong, his herbs remedy makes me believe is always good to try something new and which i did by trying herbs remedy after been on drugs for long and now i'm from with herbs remedy. and if there's anyone here fighting with the same virus you can kindly reach him for help and be free and cure too Email; Drharryherbspell01@gmail.com website www.Doctorharryherbs.com
A bunch of these are NOT medical cases. Pictures of doctors laying on the floor or in school.