Situs inversus: interesting medical condition.

[dennilfloss]

Imagine going to see a doctor and he can't hear your heart on the left side. Would surprise him for sure the first time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus

 

[OCGuy]

Yay random wiki time?


Arsenal O.101

The Arsenal O.101 was a French research aircraft that flew shortly after World War II. It was a low-wing monoplane of conventional configuration with fixed tailwheel undercarriage, but incorporated several novel features for its role as an airborne testbed for evaluating airfoil sections and control surface designs. It was designed to accommodate a pilot and an observer in tandem cockpits. However, since the observer was to be watching the aircraft's wings, this cockpit was sunken fully into the fuselage, affording no fore-and-aft view at all. The pilot's cockpit was set well back along the fuselage, near the tail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_O.101

 

[Ika]

sounds like a good condition to have if you're prone to assassinations.

 

[SillyOReilly]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

 

[lokiju]

sounds like a good condition to have if you're prone to assassinations.

By a................Ninja Assassin..............perhaps?

 

[Malak]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

1981: Jeff Dailey, a 19-year-old gamer, became the first known person to die while playing video games. After achieving a score of 16,660 in the arcade game Berzerk, he succumbed to a massive heart attack. A year later, an 18-year-old gamer died after achieving high scores in the same game.

 

[mmntech]

1814: London Beer Flood, 9 people were killed when 323,000 imperial gallons (1,468,000L) of beer in the Meux and Company Brewery burst out of their vats and gushed into the streets.

 

[Crono]

I have two hearts.

That might freak out a doctor even more.

 

[SirStev0]

Interestingly it is usu associated with infertility. Both coming about from cilia issues.

 

[Ika]

I have two hearts.

That might freak out a doctor even more.

hwat? pics?

 

[Crono]

hwat? pics?

 

[destrekor]

hwat? pics?

did you say this in a Farnsworth voice? Because I totally read it with a Farnsworth voice in my head.

:awe:

 

[Paperdoc]

Years ago I attended a sales exhibit by a major instrument manufacturer who told this story. They sold among their wares several machines to monitor heart functions in medical treatment settings. They had a little old lady they had found with this reversed organ condition. They would invite medical personnel to hook up their heart monitor equipment to this lady, and watch the ensuing confusion as all the signals on the machine came out really wrong - so wrong she ought to be dead!

 

[dawp]

I have two hearts.

That might freak out a doctor even more.

Doctor, is the you?

 

[Crono]

Doctor, is the you?

Of course not, that would be silly.

He's my cousin, several alternate universes removed.