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		<title>Carcinophobia</title>
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Fear from cancer
One not uncommon indication for prophylactic mastectomy is carcinophobia (a.k.a. cancerophobia).
Cancerophobia or carcinophobia is an active behavior of extreme fear of cancer that can lead to repeated medical examination without giving full reassurance to the patient. Denial is a mechanism of defense that usually helps the patient to cope with painful, threatening, overwhelming, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Best Hospitals in the US</title>
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The Best U.S. Hospitals for 2009

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
Cleveland Clinic
Massachusetts General, Boston
New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
University of California-San Francisco Medical Center
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis
Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital, Boston &#38;  Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
University of Washington [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2009/08/08/2009-best-hospitals-in-the-us/</link>
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		<title>Rectal Prolapse &#8211; NSFW</title>
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As in Marvin L. Corman&#8217;s book (Colon &#038; Rectal Surgery) quotes: 
Man should always strive to have his intestines relaxed all the days of his life and that bowel function should approximate diarrhea. This is a fundamental principle in medicine, that whenever the stool is withheld or is extruded with difficulty, grave illnesses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2009/08/05/rectal-prolapse-nsfw/</link>
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		<title>Traumatic hand injury</title>
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Hand reconstruction
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		<link>http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2009/05/28/traumatic-hand-injury/</link>
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		<title>Succesful surgery in a Girl with eight limbs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lakshmi is the hindu goddess of of wealth, fortune, love and beauty, the lotus flower and fertility. She is represented by an icon of a lady with four arms.

Lakshmi Tatma is a girl who is two years old but she was born with 8 limbs, because she is joined at the pelvis to what is, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2007/11/07/succesful-surgery-in-a-girl-with-eight-limbs/</link>
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		<title>Surgical model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This surgical model is made of glass fiber and has abdominal and thoracic compartments separated. A selective bronchial intubation can be done in this model. It also has a structure that simulates a diaphragm. You can perform both laparoscopy and thoracoscopy.
The organs of a pig are placed within the model.

The model is intubated with an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2007/10/09/surgical-model/</link>
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		<title>Damn Racists</title>
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The english organization Marie Stopes International maintains a campaign to alert british citizens on the risks of acquiring venereal diseases or non-wished pregnancies when traveling to Mexico.
“What is more embarrassing, his hat or what he might give you? Make sure don&#8217;t come home with any unwanted holiday souvenirs&#8221;
This poster is very offensive and annoying. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2007/08/26/damn-racists/</link>
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		<title>SurgeXperiences 1.03</title>
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Welcome to the third edition of SurgeXperiences, the first carnival of surgery. I’m honored to bring you this surgical carnival.
This will be a practical and concise edition. The objective of blogs (in my point of view) is to answer questions as quickly as possible, so lets start with the HOW-TOs. Enjoy.

 How to classify fingertip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2007/08/25/surgexperiences-103/</link>
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		<title>Next week&#8217;s SurgeXperiences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to announce that the new edition of SurgeXperiences is going to be hosted here at Unbounded Medicine next week. I&#8217;ll be accepting ALL your submissions.
Please feel free to post about anything related to surgery, like surgical procedures, mistakes during surgery of your training, lessons learnt, and tips, first operation done solo, memorable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2007/08/16/next-weeks-surgexperiences/</link>
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		<title>The appeareance of Crohn&#8217;s disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is how a Crohn&#8217;s disease looks in colonoscopy.

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		<link>http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2007/08/12/the-appeareance-of-crohns-disease/</link>
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		<title>Hemorrhoidal prolapse &amp; PPH procedure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a case of a 67 years old male with history of chronic constipation (20 years) and chronic hemorrhoidal disease came to the office with rectal bleeding and a non-redicible anal mass.
On physical examination we found Grade IV hemorrhoidal disease.

We decide to perform a PPH procedure with an hemorrhoidal circular stapler (33 mm) kit.

Note [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2007/08/12/hemorrhoidal-prolapse-pph-procedure/</link>
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		<title>Pancreatic neoplasm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A previously healthy 27 years old female came to the emergency department with a chief complaint of one-month diffuse and intermitent abdominal pain, transitory relief with bowel movements, nausea without vomit, early saciety, postprandial fullness and weight loss of 4 kilos in 1 month.
On the physical exam, we found a 10&#215;15 cm tumor in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2007/06/06/pancreatic-neoplasm/</link>
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		<title>Bochard triad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 68 year old female patient came to the E.D. with a chief complaint of sudden, severe epigastric pain, retching without vomitus and distention of the upper abdomen.
The patient was alert, very anxious, and in severe pain.
blood pressure of 160/120; pulse of 126; respiratory rate of 24; normal temperature; SatO2 of 96% without O2 supplement.
She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2007/06/04/bochard-triad/</link>
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		<title>A woman survived internal decapitation</title>
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On January 25th, a car crash took place in Nebraska and Shannon Malloy (a previously healthy 30 year old woman) was seriously injuried. Her skull became separated from her cervical spine, this is what is called internal decapitation.
&#8220;I remember the impact and then I had no control over my head&#8230; I wasn&#8217;t focused so much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2007/05/17/a-woman-survived-internal-decapitation/</link>
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		<title>Digital manipulation</title>
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Artist Koen Hauser is a specialist in digital picture manipulation. This collection is called Modische Atlas der Anatomie.



Lovely work I said.
Via
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		<link>http://www.unboundedmedicine.com/2007/05/06/digital-manipulation/</link>
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