“50 Shocking Medical Facts That Will Change the Way You Think About Health!”
#35
When you get a kidney transplant, unless your original kidneys are diseased, they just lEAVE THE OLD ONES IN THERE. OLD DEAD KIDNEYS JUST CHILLING
also- fallopian tubes are not connected to ovaries. they just float in the general direction of the ovaries and do their best to vacuum up eggs as they get popped out (kind of like a pimple bursting) out of ovary pores? so the eggs just get popped wherever and you gotta cross your toes and hope your weird little vacuum tubes are aiming right that day???
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#36
The beginning of birth control was originally an experiment and was wildly irregulated.
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#37
Chest compressions are violent. Just let your 91 year old grandma go.
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#38
In the 70’s they thought babies didn’t feel pain so they preformed surgery without anasteisa.
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#39
Sepsis is a horrible way to die . Seen it never wanna see it again . Poor bastard had horrible death and nothing could be done about it.
#40
Lots of things we know about resuscitation, trauma surgery, emergency medicine etc, were learned through gruesome vivisective experiments on WWII prisoners of war. Basically, every life saved now was paid for by a PoW tortured to death in a camp.
#41
Prions.
Edit- prions are misfolded proteins that cause other proteins to misfold in your body and it causes cell death. They affect the brain and aren’t curable. They are also extremely hard to destroy. A few prion diseases are:
Mad Cow Disease
