Dispensary Corner 22 Aug 16
August 22, 2016
SURGEONS in India have
managed to successfully remove
40 knives from the digestive tract
of a 42-year-old man who likes the
taste of cutlery.
Jarnail Singh, a policeman,
was admitted to a hospital in
Gurdaspur, India complaining of
abdominal pains.
“When we began diagnosis
we found the source of the pain
puzzling,” said one of the doctors,
Jitinder Malhortra.
“We did an ultrasound which
revealed some solid mass in his
stomach shaped like cancer”.
However it wasn’t a tumour -
instead “the patient then told us
he had an uncontrollable urge to
eat knives,” the doctor said.
A team of five surgeons
operated to extract the
metalware, with the operation a
complete success.
AND while we’re on the topic of
human oddities, golfers have been
shown to have “oddly shaped
hips” researchers in the University
of Warwick have found, writing
in the British Journal of Sports
Medicine.
Using MRI scanners on 55
professional golfers, the authors
said that research is still at the
chicken and egg stage, whereby
they don’t know whether golfing
causes the egg-shaped deformity
in their hips, or the deformity
helped golfers become successful.
The condition, known as cam
rotation, affects the natural range
of movement of the hip.
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