40 Medical Oddities and Absurdities That Make the Guy From ‘Operation’ Look Like Superman

Well, we definitely found the strangest way to cure hiccups
40 Medical Oddities and Absurdities That Make the Guy From ‘Operation’ Look Like Superman

This was an incredibly eye-opening list for us. Not only did we learn that what happened in Seinfeld’s Junior Mint scene isn’t all that uncommon, but we also learned that doctors take skin from your forearm to increase the size of your… Well, you’ll see. 

And it’s not like we need to know that for personal reasons. It’s just one of many medical oddities that we stumbled upon today. We swear!

Capgras Syndrome

AN IMPOSTOR IN THE MIRROR. LITERALLY. 2015 CRACKED.COM With Capgras Syndrome, you think all your loved ones have been replaced by impostors. One Frenchman caught an extreme version: Не thought his reflection was a stranger spying on him.

Eyes

FISH JAWBONE IN THE EYE 2015 CRACKED.COM Doctors were perplexed to discover this cause of the man's swollen and droopy eyelid. The bone landed there from when he'd collided with a school of fish, swimming in the Red Sea.

The Woman Who Has Pregnant for 60 Years

PREGNANT FOR 60 YEARS 2015 CRACKED.COM A Chilean woman carried a fetus for 60 years. Well, a calcified fetus, not a living one. It caused discomfort but was too risky to remove, so doctors told the 91-year-old to just let it be.

Pregnancy

A BABY PREGNANT WITH TWO BABIES 2015 CRACKED.COM Technically, they were absorbed siblings, not her children. But doctors were still pretty freaked out to see the Hong Kong newborn with two fetuses between her liver and kidney.

Lungs

Contralateral lung transplantation is when someone needs a lung transplant, but the available organ is the left lung instead of the right. To make the transplant work, doctors flip the donated lung 180° and trim it to make it fit. CRACKED COM

Fecal Transplants

There's a thing as fecal transplantation. Fecal transplantation is done to replenish the bacteria normally found in the intestines that have been destroyed by antibiotics or a disease. The procedure is done by infusion of feces from a donor through colonoscopy or by swallowing pills. CRACKED.COM

Brains

Humans have a second brain, and it's located CRACKED.COM in our guts. A neural network comprised of 100 million neurons in our digestive tract is responsible for our mood. Suddenly, gut feeling makes more sense.

Redheads

Redheads are more sensitive to pain than people with brown, black, or blond hair. As a result, they require 20 percent more anesthesia than average to get sedated for surgery. CRACKED.COM

Penile Enlargement Surgery

Guys: Doctors can take skin from your forearm and use it to increase the size of your penis. CRACKED.COM

AIDS

A GENETIC DEFECT MADE STEPHEN CROHN IMMUNE TO AIDS. Crohn had a mutation in his white blood cells that kept most strains of HIV from penetrating and affecting them. Не helped advance research towards combating the disease. CRACKED.COM

Hairy Eyes

HAIR SPROUTED FROM AN EYE 2013 CRACKED.COM It's called limbal dermoids, a type of tumor. One guy had one of these from birth, till he got it removed at 19 since it was messing with his vision.

The Woman With Half a Brain

A WOMAN LIVES A NORMAL LIFE WITH ONLY HALF A BRAIN. When she was 8, Christina Santhouse had to get the right hemisphere of her brain removed due to a condition called Rasmussen's Syndrome. Besides her paralysis in her left arm and visual impairments, she is pretty much fine. CRACKED.COM

The Man Who Gets Sick When He Lies

A PATIENT GETS SICK WHEN НЕ TELLS A LIE. The man, 51, experiences a loss of consciousness, convulsions, hallucinations, and anxiety for more than a third of the time when he lies. His condition is called Pinocchio Syndrome. CRACKED.COM

British Man with Fully-Functioning Female Reproductive Organs

A BRITISH MAN HAD A FULLY- FUNCTIONING FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN. The man, called Rob was thought to have bladder cancer after seeing blood in his urine. It was, in fact, his ovaries that were causing him to pee blood. Rob has a condition called Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome (PMDS). CRACKED.COM

Kidney in the Thigh

A BOY FROM MANCHESTER WAS BORN WITH ONE KIDNEY IN HIS THIGH. Because of a missing chromosome called 7p22.1, Hamish Robinson also has a speech impediment and deafness in one ear. His condition, called Hamish syndrome, is so unique that it was named after him. CRACKED.COM

Green Blood

A GUY'S BLOOD TURNED GREEN 2007 CRACKED.COM It's called sulhemoglobinemia, and it happens when sulfur binds to the hemoglobin that carries oxygen in (formerly) red blood cells. The cause for this man: too much migraine medication.

Oddly Shaped Esophaguses

A GULLET SHAPED LIKE A CORKSCREW 2003 CRACKED.COM A woman didn't know her esophagus was shaped so oddly until she was 89 and went to the doctor, complaining she burped too much (and her chest hurt, and it hurt to swallow).

Sudoku-Induced Seizures

SUDOKU-INDUCED SEIZURES 2015 1 4 7 I 3 9 2 I 2 8 I H 5 3 7 8 5 9 3 1 4 CRACKED.COM N A man got trapped in an avalanche, which cut off oxygen for 15 minutes. Afterward, he got a seizure every time he tried Sudoku puzzles. Doctor's advice? Stop doing Sudokus. That worked.

A Hickey-Induced Stroke

A HICKEY GAVE A WOMAN A STROKE. 20 2010 21 mm CRACKED.COM Days after a make-out session, a 44-year-old Maori woman found her arm getting weaker. Turned out a love bite had created a blood clot, which traveled to her head and led to a stroke.

Impervious to Pain

A GIRL WAS BORN UNABLE TO FEEL PAIN 2018 CRACKED.COM Sounds fun? Not really. Gabby Gingras has suffered all kinds of injuries as a result, knocking out her teeth, mangling her fingers, and then losing vision in one eye after knocking her head.

Hearts

A HEART THAT DOES NOT BEAT 2011 CRACKED.COM We've had artificial hearts of various designs for decades. But Craig Lewis has a continuous pump, not a rhythmic one. That means he has no pulse. Turns out you don't need one.

No Sleep

A TODDLER DIDN'T SLEEP, EVER 2009 CRACKED.COM Rhett Lamb suffered from a rare condition called chiari malformation, and he never slept, no matter how tired he got. Lucky for him (and his parents), surgery fixed it.

Surfing Injury for the Better

SURFING RIPPED OUT AN EYE GROWTH 2014 CRACKED.COM A 61-year-old had a pterygium, fibrous tissue over the eye. Не surfed in Hawaii, dipped his face in the water while riding a 30-foot wave, and the water ripped the growth out.

The Unsolvable Hiccups

HICCUPS LASTED THREE YEARS 2010 CRACKED.COM Chris Sands starred in a documentary about the hiccups, and they diagnosed him with ... a brain tumor. Не was lucky; without the hiccups, the tumor might have grown undetected and killed him.

Stem Cells

GRACKED COM If a woman's heart tissue is damaged during pregnancy, her fetus will send stem cells to repair it.

Bagels

2000 people a year are treated for BRIs or bageHrelated-injuries. GRAGKED.COM People going to the emergency room from hurting themselves while cutting a bagel is so common it has its own name.

Bones

Most of us know that an adult skeleton has 206 bones, but did you know... that we are born with over 300 bones? As we grow, some bones fuse together, many in the skull and pelvis. CRACKED COM

Livers

Your liver has a superhuman ability to regrow. Donor Recipient ©2016 The liver can grow back its full size even after 75% of it is removed. When you donate your liver, the donated part will grow back to full size in the host's body; yours will too. CRACKED.COM

Tongues

CRACKED.COM Everyone has their own fingerprints. But your tongue also has a one-of-a-kind print. Because of its uniqueness, the tongue could be used in biometric scans or forensic dentistry as an identification tool in the future.

Alcohol

Hospitals can prescribe alcohol to alcoholic patients! Edi AA ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITALS ETHANOL 40% (45ML) ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITALS ROYAL ALEXANDRA КОРТ ETHANOL 48% 1451 (VODKA) ETHANOL 40% (45ML) (VODKA) (VODKA) MANAGED ALCOHOL PROGRAM MANAGED ALCOHOL PRIGHT MANAGED ALCOHOL PROGRAM STORE AT ROOM TEMPERATURE STORE AT ROOM TEMPENOE STORE AT ROOM TEMPERATURE FOR ORAL USE FOR ORAL USE FOR ORAL USE TREE ORANGE TREE FOR a OSL FOR ORAL USE EXT FOR ORAL ONLY ONLY Beer, alcoholic beverages, and IV alcohol is often given to alcoholics before anesthesia to help patients tolerate procedures and help with withdrawal. CRACKED.COM

Kidneys

Doctors don't replace your kidney, during a kidney transplant. They add a third one, and transplant in a new ureter to hook it up. CRACKED.COM

Gamers as Surgeons

Chronic gamers make excellent surgeons. CRACKED.COM According to a 2007 study of students training to become surgeons, long time gamers performed up to 47% better on screen assisted surgeries than non-gamers. Remember this when it is time for a colonoscopy.

German Soldiers

CRACKED.COM Soldiers in an elite German unit are growing left breasts. w on on 123 In their drill, they're hitting that side of their chests with rifles over and over, and that seems to be making breast tissue grow. Scientists just aren't sure how.

Items Left Inside of Patients After Surgery

Every year in the US at least 4,000 items are left inside patients after surgery. In the medical world it is known as retained surgical items. GRACKED.COM

Tumors

A WOMAN'S BRAIN TUMOR WAS DISCOVERED BECAUSE THE VOICES IN HER HEAD TOLD HER TO GET A BRAIN SCAN. The woman, called Patient AB, hallucinated the voices during a time when she showed no other symptoms of a tumor. When the voices wouldn't stop nagging her, she convinced a doctor to have her tested. Once she'd had surgery to remove the tumor, she says the voices thanked her for listening, then said goodbye. CRACKED.COM

The Concussion That Turned a Man into a Genius

A JOCK GOT MUGGED, SUFFERED FROM A CONCUSSION, AND SUDDENLY BECAME A GENIUS. After recovery, Jason Padgett started seeing geometrical shapes everywhere. Не didn't know what it was, but after a few math classes, he realized it was math fractals he was seeing. Padgett's condition is called acquired savant syndrome. CRACKED.COM

Hiccups

A MAN WITH PANCREATITIS DEVELOPED PERSISTENT HICCUPS THAT CAN ONLY BE CURED WITH A RECTAL MASSAGE. Different medications were administered to him to no avail. After a few hours, his hiccups came back, and the doctor got rid of it by performing another rectal massage. CRACKED.COM

The Inability to Feel Pain

JO CAMERON CAN'T FEEL PAIN AND HEALS WITHOUT SCARS. Doctors first found out about Cameron's condition when she seemed unbothered by a supposedly painful hip problem. She has a mutant gene that also makes her wounds heal without scarring. CRACKED.COM

Postpartum Bangladeshi Woman

A MONTH AFTER A BANGLADESHI WOMAN DELIVERED A BABY, SHE WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL FOR STOMACH PAINS. It turned out she has two wombs and that she was in labor again, giving birth to twins. Arifa Sultana has a condition called uterus didelphys, where a woman develops two uteruses instead of one. CRACKED.COM

The Opposite of Albinism

SANDRA LAING'S CONDITION IS THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF ALBINISM. After three generations of all-white ancestors, Laing was born with dark skin and curly black hair. Due to her skin color, she struggled with racism and discrimination in South Africa. Her life was later turned into a documentary film entitled Skin. CRACKED.COM

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