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This puts me in mind of one of my favourite cringe-worthy medical paper abstracts: "Fulminant acute colitis following a self-administered hydrofluoric acid enem

by cstross 11y ago

This puts me in mind of one of my favourite cringe-worthy medical paper abstracts: "Fulminant acute colitis following a self-administered hydrofluoric acid enema" (Am J Gastroenterol. 1993 Jan;88(1):122-6): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8420252 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8420252 The phrase "while intoxicated from intranasal cocaine administration" made it into the abstract. One suspects the words "watch this!" were uttered in the immediately preceding moments ...

adrianN 11y ago
There are also parent who give their children bleach enemas to "cure their autism" https://www.vice.com/read/parents-are-giving-their-children-bleach-enemas-to-cure-them-of-autism-311 https://www.vice.com/read/parents-are-giving-their-children-...
- dexterdog 11y ago
  It does unfortunately cure them of having an autistic child.
  - magic_beans 11y ago
    Or having any child at all.
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shiro 11y ago
There was a tragic accident in Japan back in 1982: A dentist mistakenly applied HF solution instead of fluorides to a girl, who subsequently suffered extreme pain and died. Both materials are called フッ素 (fusso, which is actually the name of Fluorine), and there was a fatal miscommunication between dentist's assistant and the distributor. The dentist felt so guilty and stressed out that he died from stroke at the girl's funeral. For Japanese in my generation, the fear of HF was imprinted by the accident. I couldn't find English reference, but here's Japanese wikipedia page: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AB%E7%8E%8B%E5%AD%90%E5%B8%82%E6%AD%AF%E7%A7%91%E5%8C%BB%E5%B8%AB%E3%83%95%E3%83%83%E5%8C%96%E6%B0%B4%E7%B4%A0%E9%85%B8%E8%AA%A4%E5%A1%97%E5%B8%83%E4%BA%8B%E6%95%85 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AB%E7%8E%8B%E5%AD%90%E5...
- shiro 11y ago
  Correction: After some more searching, it turned out the doctor did collapsed at the funeral from stroke but survived.
dghughes 11y ago
Or "Hold my beer."

by cstross 11y ago

adrianN 11y ago

There are also parent who give their children bleach enemas to "cure their autism" https://www.vice.com/read/parents-are-giving-their-children-bleach-enemas-to-cure-them-of-autism-311 https://www.vice.com/read/parents-are-giving-their-children-...

dexterdog 11y ago
It does unfortunately cure them of having an autistic child.
- magic_beans 11y ago
  Or having any child at all.
  - deleted 11y ago
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shiro 11y ago

There was a tragic accident in Japan back in 1982: A dentist mistakenly applied HF solution instead of fluorides to a girl, who subsequently suffered extreme pain and died. Both materials are called フッ素 (fusso, which is actually the name of Fluorine), and there was a fatal miscommunication between dentist's assistant and the distributor. The dentist felt so guilty and stressed out that he died from stroke at the girl's funeral. For Japanese in my generation, the fear of HF was imprinted by the accident. I couldn't find English reference, but here's Japanese wikipedia page: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AB%E7%8E%8B%E5%AD%90%E5%B8%82%E6%AD%AF%E7%A7%91%E5%8C%BB%E5%B8%AB%E3%83%95%E3%83%83%E5%8C%96%E6%B0%B4%E7%B4%A0%E9%85%B8%E8%AA%A4%E5%A1%97%E5%B8%83%E4%BA%8B%E6%95%85 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AB%E7%8E%8B%E5%AD%90%E5...

shiro 11y ago
Correction: After some more searching, it turned out the doctor did collapsed at the funeral from stroke but survived.

dghughes 11y ago

Or "Hold my beer."