This is a classic example of biting off more than you can chew — or at least more than this patient could chew without his dentures.

After misplacing his false teeth, the 61-year-old man decided to

When the slit lamp hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s a… radial keratotomy.

And while it doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, this woman’s corneas do have some interesting slices — thanks

Antibiotics in 2019 are not looking so hot.

And while for most of us taking part in the #10yearchallenge — the side-by-side pic comparison currently sweeping social media — it’s an embarrassing

‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is the approach sometimes taken with gunshot wounds — that is, if removing the bullet would do more harm than good.

But a recent report in the New England Journal of

A 36-year-old man was admitted to an ICU in San Francisco with acute exacerbation of chronic heart failure.

Over the next week, he had episodes of haemoptysis with increasing respiratory distress.

There is a plethora of imaging techniques when it comes to perusing your patient’s innards. Perhaps they need a CT or a PET scan? But why choose?

Enter the EXPLORER: the world’s first total-body

If a recent case report in the BMJ teaches us anything, it’s not to travel to Greenland and make margaritas in the midnight sun, obviously.

But one Australian tourist learnt this hard way.

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After a romantic honeymoon in Belize, a newlywed went home to the US with more than just lifelong memories.

The 36-year-old woman thought she had discovered an infected insect bite on the left side

A patient undergoing cancer treatment presented to oncologists seeking an explanation for these strange new striations, and they totally nailed it.

The 42-year-old was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s

Lots of little oddities show up incidentally when scanning patients, but this one really takes the cake.

When an 18-year-old man presented to an ED in New Delhi, India, with symptoms of an abdominal