Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: medical

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The icy village where you must remove your appendix

bbc.com/future/article/20180810-villas-las-estrellas-antarctica-base-residents-surgery
There’s a settlement in Antarctica with a school, a post office and a huddle of homes. It’s like other sub-zero villages, except for one thing: families must have surgery to move in.

Allusionist 45: Eponyms II - Name That Disease — The Allusionist

theallusionist.org/name-that-disease
If you love eponyms like Roman Mars loves eponyms, I'm afraid physician Isaac Siemens is here to deliver some bad news: medics are ditching them, in favour of terms that a) contain information about what the ailment actually is, and/or b) don't honour Nazi war criminals. Eponyms are controversial things.