Man Asks Doctor to Remove Two Healthy Fingers from His Hand Because They Traumatized Him
A Quebec man suffering from body integrity identity disorder (BIID) asked a doctor to remove the fourth and fifth fingers on his left hand because he felt they didn’t belong on his body. Dr. Nadia Nadeau from the Department of Psychiatry at Université Laval recently published a case report about an unnamed patient who had […]
Country Bans Dance Music That Is Either Too Fast or Too Slow
The Russian Republic of Chechnya recently banned Russian dance music deemed either too fast or too slow, in a bizarre attempt to fight the Western “pollution” of its conservative values. Musa Dadayev, Chechnya’s Minister of Culture, recently put out a statement that effectively criminalizes most modern dance music genres that are typically played in clubs […]
Teen Has Metal Coin Stuck Between Vochal Cords in Bizarre Accident
A California teen became the subject of a recent medical paper after getting a metal coin vertically stuck between his vocal cords like in a slot machine. In a medical report published in this month’s New England Journal of Medicine, a team of doctors detailed the bizarre case of a 14-year-old boy who showed up […]