A Good Poop is thrown together by a guy named Chris. Chris is working on his Master's degree in Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Toronto. You can reach him at agoodpoop@gmail.com.
February 27, 2008
Category: General Ickiness
Sauper T, Lanthaler M, Biebl M, Weiss H, Nehoda H. Impaired anal sphincter function in professional cyclists. Wien Klin Wochenschr. 2007;119(5-6):170-3. Professional cycling: Voluntary defecation control is for pussies....
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February 25, 2008
Category: Death and Injury
Frey FJ. [Microwave-induced heating injury] Ther Umsch. 2004 Dec;61(12):703-6. German. This one's in German. Though I no spreken ze deutch, the translated abstract tells the sad medical tale of a diabetic who was burnt by a warm-up pillow that was...
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February 16, 2008
Category: Brain Stuff
Pearce JM. Misoplegia. Eur Neurol. 2007;57(1):62-4. Epub 2006 Nov 20. Review. Hemiplegia is paralysis of one side of the body. It can be congenital or acquired as the result of disease or injury involving the spinal cord and/or brain. Stroke...
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February 15, 2008
Category: Snarky
Straumanis JP. Disclosure of medical error: is it worth the risk? Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2007 Mar;8(2 Suppl):S38-43. Hells no. Not unless you get off on having personal injury lawsuits filed against you. Which, admittedly, would be an interesting kink....
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February 10, 2008
Category: Amputations
Volkmer BG, Maier S. Successful penile replantation following autoamputation: twice! Int J Impot Res. 2002 Jun;14(3):197-8. The particularly impressive part for me is that he was able to get it up even after the second replantation. In related news, check...
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February 7, 2008
Category: Drugs
Marneros A, Gutmann P, Uhlmann F. Self-amputation of penis and tongue after use of Angel's Trumpet. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2006 Oct;256(7):458-9. Epub 2006 Jun 16. Kids, this is why you should just bite the bullet and fork out...
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February 5, 2008
Category: Sex
Arya CL, Gupta R, Arora VK. Accidental condom inhalation. Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci. 2004 Jan-Mar;46(1):55-8. Sounds like either someone was a little too enthusiastic or someone else was a little too small. Oh, snap! --- Morineau G, Prybylski...
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February 4, 2008
Category: Brain Stuff
Nakaguchi H, Matsuno A, Teraoka A. Prediction of the incidence of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage from meteorological data. Int J Biometeorol. 2008 Jan 8; [Epub ahead of print] Changes in the weather can make your head (read: blood vessels in your...
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February 2, 2008
Category: Brain Stuff
Kuijpers HJ, van der Heijden FM, Tuinier S, Verhoeven WM. Meditation-Induced Psychosis. Psychopathology. 2007 Sep 11;40(6):461-464 Please correct me if I've been misinformed here, but isn't meditation supposed to help you chill out, not make you go nuts? Although I...
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