If she must read in bed, Noble advised, she should alternate hands when holding literary doorstops or rest the book on a small, portable podium. He was a successful college student and athlete before a shooting destroyed his right eye, which was replaced with an artificial one. Many people told him they couldn't tell the difference between his prosthesis and his real eye, but that didn't matter. The guy suffered from body dysmorphic disorder, a preoccupation with a defect in appearance that's either imagined or way overblown, according to Roskes. He says this is the first reported case of body dysmorphic disorder related to a prosthesis, but psychiatrists ought to keep it in mind whenever they meet with someone who has an artificial body part.
Patients do the darndest things.
Like swallow chicken bones, a team of doctors from Baracaldo, Spain, write in the October issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology . After a week and a half in the hospital, a scope of his colon revealed the presence of a foreign body, which was removed via the scope. When his doctors went back to look at the abdominal X-ray taken upon admission, they noticed the faint image of the bone, which had perforated his colon. About 1 percent of all intestinal perforations are caused by a foreign body, the doctors write. And nearly half of those are caused by animal bones, mainly chicken or fish.