Bad Ideas from a Doctor
Doctor & researcher. Exploring medical mysteries, human nature, and the bad ideas medicine has tried—and how they went horribly wrong.
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BAD IDEA #9: How Pond Algae Won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine—and Could Help the Blind See Again
Imagine being told that a discovery involving a microscopic green alga could help scientists understand the brain, investigate chronic pain and anxiety, and potentially restore some vision to people who are blind.
It sounds like science fi...
BAD IDEA #9: THE GIRL WHO COULDN’T STOP HICCUPPING — AND AMERICA THOUGHT SHE WAS FAKING
Imagine being 15 and unable to drink a glass of water without your body interrupting you.
You’re sitting in class.
Hic. Hic. Hic.
Your classmates stare. Someone laughs. You try to concentrate, but your diaphragm keeps contracting involun...
BAD IDEA 8#: The Doctor who Thought Cutting your Brain could cure Madness.
How doctors turned an experimental brain operation into a miracle treatment for mental illness — and why it became one of medicine’s most disturbing mistakes.
Imagine checking into a hospital because you are hearing voices, struggling with...
BAD IDEA #7Blood Is Blood, Right?
Photo by Aman Chaturvedi on Unsplash
Welcome back, fellow bad-idea enthusiasts.
Before your next blood transfusion feels reassuringly boring, let me tell you how terrifying the whole thing used to be. Today, if a patient is bleeding badl...
BAD IDEA #6: THEY WANTED FEWER COBRAS. THEY GOT MORE.
While I was in medical school, I thought hospitals with lower maternal mortality rates were simply better hospitals.
I compared public hospitals with private ones and thought, “When I eventually have a wife and children, I definitely want...
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