doctors Archives ⋆ The Teenager Today https://theteenagertoday.com/tag/doctors/ Loved by youth since 1963 Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:52:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://theteenagertoday.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-the-teenager-today-favicon-32x32.png doctors Archives ⋆ The Teenager Today https://theteenagertoday.com/tag/doctors/ 32 32 Doctors — The Superheroes in White Coats! https://theteenagertoday.com/doctors-the-superheroes-in-white-coats/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:52:46 +0000 https://theteenagertoday.com/?p=29071 Let’s raise a toast to them and hope that they continue curing challenging health problems through their innovative ways and skills!

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Illustration of schoolchildren laughing
Illustration: © Rama Ramesh

A laughing epidemic attacks schoolchildren

It started harmlessly enough in 1962 in Tanganyika in Tanzania — three girls giggling helplessly in class (who doesn’t do that?), but soon, nearly 95 of the 159 pupils in the school began to laugh uncontrollably, and this laughing epidemic forced the school to be closed in March. Alas, when it reopened in May, there was a second outbreak affecting 57 students. The symptoms of uncontrollable laughter ranged from a few hours to a scary 16 days in some cases! Soon, many other schools in the 100-mile radius were also affected. While the schools probably considered it a big ‘student’ conspiracy to miss classes, doctors, however, considered it as a stress-induced response in the young population.

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]]> Strangest Cases for Doctors https://theteenagertoday.com/strangest-cases-for-doctors/ Fri, 01 Jul 2022 06:45:40 +0000 https://theteenagertoday.com/?p=22529 Here's looking at some of the most bizarre medical cases that doctors encountered and diagnosed or treated successfully.

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]]> On July 1, we celebrate International Doctors Day. We are ever thankful for their service, and this month, we will look at some of the most bizarre medical cases that doctors encountered and diagnosed or treated successfully. Apples, move aside… these people really need doctors!

Illustration of man feeling ill while solving a sudoku puzzle
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Sudoku + Avalanche = Seizures

Love solving Sudoku puzzles? Good. Just don’t overdo it like this guy from Germany. He was once trapped in an avalanche, and after 15 minutes without oxygen, he experienced muscle twitches. Weeks later, when he tried to solve Sudoku puzzles, he developed seizures. The doctors he consulted also observed that his seizures stopped immediately after he stopped trying to solve the puzzles. Brain scans and tests revealed that the culprit was an overstimulated brain triggered by external stimuli (in this case Sudoku). Having stopped solving them, the patient was free of seizures!

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