"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Mystery Solved: Last month I linked to this medical mystery from the New England Journal of Medicine - a man whose stomach appears to be in his pelvis. If I recall, I thought it looked like he had eaten paper clips. Today, the Journal published the answer (requires subscription):
At laparotomy, the distended stomach was found to contain 5.5 kg of coins, necklaces, and needles.
