1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends: Drinking Urine, Eating Worms, and Other Weird Cures, Cases, and Research from the Annals of Medicine - Softcover

Bender, H. Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250070570 ISBN 13: 9781250070579

Verlag: Griffin, 2016

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Have you ever wondered what that 1 outlier would say when you see commercials and products boasting that 9 out of 10 doctors recommend something? Well here's your answer....

Three doctors explore and explain the least recommended techniques and cures lurking in the darkest corners of medicine through the ages.

Entertaining and informative, (and sometimes just plain gross), 1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends examines the strangest and most unusual medical practices, including drinking your own urine to fight infection, using live eels to relieve constipation, and licking a patient's head to diagnose cystic fibrosis. As licensed medical physicians who believe that humor is the best medicine, the authors decode the methods behind the seemingly mad science.

Fascinating examples include:

* the use of bee venom to treat herpes
* infecting yourself with intestinal parasites to relieve allergies
* "natural" ways to make your genitalia larger
* how the insertion of a potato reportedly stops post-delivery bleeding
* the effects of salt pork on a sore throat
* the supposed benefits of "vampire facials"

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H. ERIC BENDER, MD, divides his time between his private psychiatry practice in San Francisco, lecturing, and consulting with media outlets on popular culture and mental health.

MURDOC KHALEGHI, MD, splits his time between the emergency department, working with cool companies, and trying to stay warm during youth hockey games.

BOBBY SINGH, MD, practices in a large teaching hospital, as well as maintaining a private practice in forensic psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry.

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1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends

Drinking Urine, Eating Worms, and Other Weird Cures, Cases, and Research from the Annals of Medicine

By H. Eric Bender, Murdoc Khalegi, Bobby Singh

St. Martin's Press

Copyright © 2016 H. Eric Bender, MD, Murdoc Khalegi, MD, and Bobby Singh, MD
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-250-07057-9

Contents

Title Page, 
Copyright Notice, 
Dedication, 
Acknowledgments, 
Introduction, 
1. The Creepiest of All Treatments, 
2. More Doctors Smoke Camels ... Well, What Else Would You Do to a Camel?, 
3. Stuck on You, 
4. Want Fries with That?, 
5. Unwrinkling a Wizard's Sleeve?, 
6. Placenta: It's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore, 
7. Does This Jersey Make Me Look Fat?, 
8. A Sting to Treat a Sting, 
9. You Can't Redo Everything, 
10. Country Music Can Be Deadly (for White People), 
11. Dark Days: Experimentation on Mentally Challenged and Mentally Ill Patients, 
12. Stretch Armstrong's Got Nothing on This!, 
13. Two Eyes, Two Ears, Two Noses?, 
14. I Need This Like I Need a Hole in the Head!, 
15. Asthma, Allergies, and Long-Term Worms, 
16. The G-Spot Shot: Spot On or Spot Off?, 
17. Chakra the Monkey Tonight!, 
18. Moxibustion: Not Quite Smoking Banana Leaves, but Almost!, 
19. Maybe They Just Passed Gas, 
20. As If Birth Weren't Traumatic Enough, 
21. An Eerie Enema, 
22. They Say Stripes Are Slimming, 
23. Ping-Pong, Anyone?, 
24. Treating Hemorrhoids: A Real Pain in the Butt, 
25. Sore Throat: Better or Worse After These Remedies?, 
26. Facing the Facts When, in Fact, That's Not Your Face, 
27. Stocks Drop, So Might the Bodies, 
28. It's Just a Flesh Wound, 
29. When Blood Is Green and Urine Blue, 
30. Prosthetic Limbs of Today: Beyond Pegs and Hooks, 
31. Want Bigger Breasts? Have a Thai Stranger Slap Them Repeatedly, 
32. Truly Giving a Shit, 
33. "Hands-On" Help for Hysteria, 
34. Kim Kardashian's Vampire Facial (No, Not That Kind!), 
35. MADW Wasn't Quite as Catchy, 
36. A Load of Bully, 
37. Why Didn't They Call It Uranus?, 
38. Kill Your Television ... Except If Watching Modern Family, 
39. Holy Mackerel!, 
40. Take the Lead. It's Prescription., 
41. You Won't Always Be Able to Control Everything, 
42. What If They Were Lactating?, 
43. Well, Who Is Going to Open the Pickle Jar?, 
44. Don't Blame the Irish, 
45. And It Makes You Look Cool, 
46. Not Just Good for Serving Revenge, 
47. Does the Carpet Match the Drapes?, 
48. We Are Not Suggesting You Suck on It, 
49. So That's What the Track Marks Are From, 
50. Good for the Birds, Bad for the Worms, 
51. You Mean It Won't Fall Off?, 
52. How Many Licks Does It Take?, 
53. Try Not to Bruise It, 
54. The Only Time You Would Rather Deal with a Prick, 
55. It's All in Your Head, 
56. Forget the Eye of the Tiger, 
57. They Eventually Get Their Revenge, 
58. You Don't Need to Re-prove Gravity, 
59. Are They Crooked?, 
60. Dying for Sleep, 
61. Drinking to Improve Thinking, 
62. Your Mane or Your Manliness?, 
63. Paging Dr. Dracula, 
64. Hurling at High Speed, 
65. Possibly a Posset for Parity?, 
66. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme, 
67. Finally, a Medical Reason to Not Exercise, 
68. Poor Pooh Bear, 
69. And It Burns, Burns, Burns, the Ring of Fire ..., 
70. Snow in Your Nose, 
71. Aspire to Respire, but Avoid to Not Expire, 
72. Liquidating Lousy Lice, 
73. A Cup Should Not Go Up, 
74. Lettin' Go Lentigo, 
75. Hashing Out Headbanging Hazards, 
76. Heroin: The All-Time Addictive, Snorting, Injecting, Smoking, Disorienting, Constipating, So-You-Can-Throw-It-All-Away Medicine, 
77. Halting Harassing Hiccups, 
78. The Importance of Impotence, 
79. When the Treatment Is Worse Than the Disease, 
80. I'd Rather Have a Bottle in Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy, 
81. To Do or Not, 
82. Take Two Skulls and Call Me in the Morning, 
83. Itching to Add Inches, 
84. Pacifying Mr. Gandhi and Quieting Mister Ed, 
85. Everybody Gettin' Horny, 
86. Click It or Ticket!, 
87. Sleep Divorce to Prevent Real Divorce?, 
88. Doctor's Orders: Twelve Bottles of Beer, by Mouth, Daily, 
89. Beating the Stick, 
90. No Wrinkle in Chyme?, 
91. Honey, I Healed the Wound!, 
92. The Sad Story and Salvation of Thalidomide, 
93. Finding Frankenstein's Fountainhead, 
94. Guess I'll Go Eat Worms, 
95. One of the Few Practices We Endorse, 
96. Getting Pissy, 
References, 
Index, 
About the Authors, 
Copyright, 

CHAPTER 1

The Creepiest of All Treatments

Ever had a cut that just does not seem to get better? Ever wonder what you might have to do if it doesn't heal? Stop wondering, as you may then decide it's not worth fixing.

Before getting to the dirty truth, it's worth knowing how to avoid getting into this sort of situation. Our bodies naturally have an amazing ability to heal themselves, an ability we have evolved — or "intelligently designed," some might say — over millions of years. We tend to heal fairly quickly, making us just slightly slower versions of Wolverine.

We are not all so fortunate, though. Blood flow is essential to healing, as it carries various nutrients to the injured tissue. Anything that interferes with blood flow, such as vascular disease or diabetes, can impair our ability to heal. The simplest wounds can cause tissue to die and become infected, prompting more tissue death and infection. If only there were some way to get rid of dead tissue, or more specifically, something that could eat dead tissue — other than zombies.

Enter the maggots. Since the 1930s, doctors have observed that maggots can help remove infected and dead tissue from wounds. Soon after, they came up with something even better to kill bacteria: antibiotics. So unfortunately, the tiny worms fell out of favor. We became hooked on the antibiotics, as we do on many drugs, and started using them excessively. As a result, the last two decades have seen the emergence of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs." As we have learned from SyFy-channel movies, the best way to fight superbugs is with other bugs. Reenter the maggots.

Now maggot therapy is used at more than eight hundred health care institutions, and maggots can be readily prescribed as a regulated medical device. Apparently, even maggots can't escape bureaucracy. We do not know what the charge is for maggot therapy, but we assume there is an impressive markup, making one man's trash another man's treasure. Maggots are especially helpful in preventing infections from getting past knees and elbows, as they congregate well in those areas. Perhaps maggots like to hang out in knees and elbows so they can ask each other, "What's a nice maggot like you doing in a joint like this?"

More Doctors Smoke Camels ... Well, What Else Would You Do to a Camel?

As cigarette smoking rose in popularity in the 1930s and 1940s, an equally large concern in the medical community loomed about the negative effects of smoking. In order to combat the growing worry among the public, cigarette companies' advertising agencies began to picture physicians in ads for their products, reminding us of why we love Mad Men. In 1946, one of the most iconic advertisements pictured a man in a white coat...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Griffin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1250070570
• ISBN 13: 9781250070579
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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