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A man hiked in the woods. Every brain cell got cooked.

Chubbyemu

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These cases are patients who I, or my colleagues have seen. They are de-identified and many instances have been presented in more depth in an academic setting. These videos are not individual medical advice and are for general educational purposes only. I do not give medical advice over the internet.

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20 Comments

@stingybee-h1472 3 months ago

He literally 90% died and survived

@Monkey_30000 5 months ago

''The patient was half dead, but on the bright side he was also half alive, so the doctors sent him home''.

@FJDH11 4 months ago

A man breathed air. This is how his organs turned inside out..

@shubhamsengupta7287 2 months ago

Bro needed dr house

@visoth7791 5 months ago

Kidney failure, a stroke, sent home multiple times, lyme disease, AND A FULL RECOVERY? Damn! That dude is a survivor.

@players62 5 months ago

Kudos to the doctor who admitted, after 7 visits, that maybe he should try a different hospital

@Kat-tr2ig 5 months ago

KA's hospital experience reminds me of this one Simpson's quote: "Burns was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was then transferred to a better hospital where doctors upgraded his condition to 'alive'."

@theguywhoisaguyandisalsoaguy 2 months ago

a man drank water. his testicles exploded.

@vindik8or 4 months ago

Glad to know that getting every brain cell cooked is no longer fatal these days.

@Jakubauke2137 5 months ago

Getting a full recovery after this is trully insane ngl

@condolcezza5850 5 months ago

Presenting to the comments, where we are now

@Niltenstein 2 months ago (edited)

That loss of intelligence is absolutely terrifying. To think that he had these words but lost the synapses to understand what they meant and how they interacted, like loose words were just floating about that sometimes managed to be caught and regurgitated in a fitting context and sometimes not. It really pronounces that for how conscious we think we humans are, it all hinges on our brain being capable and working uninterrupted, and if just parts of it are lost the line between conscious and not can be blurred so easily

@Dudesonehundred 5 months ago

Another reason why I'm an avid indoorsman

@cameron_bosch 5 months ago

Honestly, the fact that this patient made a full recovery is amazing. Especially after all of the crap he went through.

@miponii-chan 5 months ago

hearing that "x was able to make a full— recovery" at the end always makes me smile after the ordeal they had to endure

@fluffiestmallard6484 2 months ago

The doctor calling out the hospital for being trash and saying go somewhere else is a hero

@iagas9 5 months ago

This is maybe the most House MD case you've had on the channel. From the first hospital not getting it... to the symptoms randomly improving on 5 different drugs.... to the full recovery. Really awesome video

@alexandraogundipe811 5 months ago

0:46 “5 years earlier”. Only a minute in, but when I hear about how long things can be lingering/lead to things later down the road, it always feels a bit more stark.

@HeleMoss 5 months ago

The unwillingness to look for the cause of a patients problems when the obvious causes are ruled out is a major problem in medicine that needs to be addressed more seriously.