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In an April column in Toronto’s Globe & Mail, Dr. Shafiq Qaadri selected memorable gastrointestinal patients from his practice and celebrated their “award-winning” problems in detail. They fell under the categories “greatest number of parasites taken from a patient,” “most obscure parasite,” “best vomit,” and “best stool.” The latter two awards were won by African men whose excretions had yielded worms about six inches long; the stool worm was pregnant with ten baby worms.
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In June Troy Harding, 19, was released from a hospital in Portland, Oregon, three weeks after he walked into the radio antenna of his car after turning around abruptly when talking to friends. The antenna went up his nose almost four inches, pierced his sinus, and entered his brain, coming to rest in his pituitary gland.
In June a couple in their 30s revealed to newspapers in the Netherlands the results of their 1993 in-vitro fertilization at the University Hospital at Utrecht, one of the country’s most prestigious clinics. The mother had twins, but apparently because a test-tube wasn’t adequately cleaned, the mother’s eggs had been fertilized with her husband’s sperm as well as the sperm of another man. The couple is white, the other man is black. One twin is white, the other biracial.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
