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How Not to Cough Up a Human Hair Ball
This week I learned about a rare disorder called trichophagia. Well, “learned about” might be stretching it. I was watching a BBC drama series about a doctor in a small village and one of the characters presented with symptoms that turned out to be trichophagia. The doctor only made his diagnosis after his patient dramatically …[ read more ]
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So Many Angry Christians (So few people calling them out on it)
One of my all-time favorite cartoons is Calvin and Hobbes and my favorite of those is one of Calvin and his patient mother. The first frame shows Calvin’s mother sitting on the sofa calmly folding laundry when from another room Calvin yells “Mom! Mom!” In the next frame Calvin’s mother has black clouds around her …[ read more ]