Fascinomas: Fascinating Medical Mysteries

✍ Scribed by Meador, Clifton K.

• Publisher: CreateSpace
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 96 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: North Charleston, South Carolina
• ISBN-13: 9781491029275

✦ Synopsis

A puzzling paralysis -- A sticky situation -- The cause of some symptoms can be illusory -- Seasonal disorder -- Snake on a porch -- A lag in medical knowledge -- A dose by any other color -- First diagnosis of death -- Medicine can be a humbling profession -- Mysterious mammaries -- The eye does not see what the mind is not prepared to know -- A drug to prevent a complication causes the complication -- Miss information -- An uncommon cure -- Shining a light on the problem -- What you don't know can kill you -- Out of the mouths of babes -- Keeping secrets -- 2+2=fortunate -- A Korean experience -- Gut reaction -- Bite the hand that feeds you -- Remembrance of things past: Marcel Proust -- Sometimes the cause for a disease can only be heard -- Labels that stick -- Learning to speak the language -- Sometimes the answer to a single question solves the mystery -- Strange intuition -- "Extratebrestrial" communication -- The honeymoon -- A case of overkill -- Some mysteries remain mysteries -- A case of the blues -- Open and shut case -- Itch in a college student.;The author shares some of the most memorable, bizarre, interesting, but all true, stories from his medical career.

✦ Subjects

Physicians -- Anecdotes