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Man Hypnotized Himself For Painful Bone-Cutting Surgery Posted: 2 years ago by karenben
Hypnotherapist Alex Lenkei left medics stunned by snubbing anaesthetic and sending himself into a trance before undergoing surgery. Anaesthetist Richard Venn said the surgery would usually be carried out under general anaesthetic.
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Man begs doctors to undo penis enlargement surgery Posted: 7 months ago by kakana
Just one month after undergoing a penis enlargement surgery, a patient of a Moscow plastic surgery clinic has asked the doctors to restore the original size of his penis.
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Jolie is plastic surgery 'gold standard' Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
ANGELINA Jolie is the gold standard of beauty among women seeking cosmetic surgery and that's not about to change, a leading Hollywood surgeon has told Australian specialists.
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Demand for "designer vagina" surgery rising Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Increasing British women are seeking state-funded cosmetic surgery on their genitals.
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Sweat-suction surgery to cool your armpits Posted: 2 years ago by maxriter
There is a possibility for all people who want to get rid of the problem to have a suction surgery. During an operation a sweat gland is removed through a tiny needle that is inserted into the armpit.
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Boy wakes up with posh accent after surgery Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A 10-year-old boy has woken up with a posh English accent after undergoing life-saving brain surgery. William McCartney-Moore's usual northern England accent was replaced with a much more refined tones complete with elongated vowels after he had an operation to remove fluid on his brain. Picture from this news site.
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Skeleton may show ancient brain surgery Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Greek archaeologists said Tuesday they have unearthed rare evidence of what they believe was brain surgery performed nearly 1,800 years ago on a young woman - who died during or shortly after the operation.
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Man survives record tumour surgery Posted: 2 years ago by wildminou
A Chinese man recovers from surgery that removed part of his facial tumours, which weigh more than 20 kilogrammes in total.
NSFW :Video, Jabba the Hutt look-alike
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Surgery for 8-limbed girl successful Posted: 2 years ago by pocksucket
Following on from Autumn's post about Lakshmi born with vestigial remnants of a conjoined twin (or born as the reincarnation of a god, depending on your point of view), she has had the surgery now, and after a team of 30 doctors operated for 24 hours, she is doing fine.
NB, the Daily Mail have updated the article Autumn linked to to reflect this.
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Surgery to take cat from 5 legs to 3 Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
The cat, named Babygirl, will undergo surgery to remove the extra leg and another crippled leg, though the operation has not yet been scheduled.
*Pic not releated
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London Surgeon Pioneering Scarless Abdominal Surgery Using Belly Button Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
A London surgeon is pioneering a new way to remove abdominal organs through the belly button using an approach called single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) which requires only a 10 mm cut in the navel to allow entry of a camera and all the surgical instruments and through which organs like the appendix and gall bladder can be removed.
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Invisible Surgery: Appendix Removed Through Patient's Vagina Posted: 11 months ago by suebe
Breaking new ground in what many surgeons consider the next frontier in minimally invasive surgery, Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital surgeon Kurt Roberts, M.D., successfully performed an appendectomy with no abdominal incision. The appendix was removed through a small incision in the patient's vagina.
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30,000 people a year wake during surgery Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
Patients say it feels like being trapped in a corpse: They awake during surgery, unable to move or scream. Some remember hearing their surgeons talk, and a few recall feeling intense pain.
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Dying woman spends £40,000 on plastic surgery.. to look like Demi Moore Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
A woman with an inoperable brain tumour is spending £40,000 on plastic surgery – so she can die looking like movie star Demi Moore.
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"Jawless" teen gets special surgery Posted: 1 year ago by suebe
An Irish 18 year old, born without a jaw, had surgery at a NYC hospital to build a jaw. There are only two known cases of otofacial syndrome. Alan is one of them. But more than anything else in the world, Alan just want to be normal. Video at link
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Ex-First Lady Barbara Bush Has Heart Surgery Posted: 9 months ago by Bornbad
Former first lady Barbara Bush had open-heart surgery Wednesday and is resting comfortably at a Houston hospital with her husband, former President George H.W. Bush.
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Hungary gorilla recovering after rare surgery Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
The Budapest Zoo says a 32-year-old female gorilla has undergone gynecological surgery, the first such operation in Hungary and rare even worldwide.
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Animal lover spends £7,500 on surgery for cat Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
An animal lover has spent £7,500 on complex facial reconstructive surgery for her pet cat after it was disfigured in a car accident.
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10 Worst Plastic Surgery Disasters Posted: 9 months ago by IlliterateMook
Continuing the plastic surgery theme. Some of these are just plain freaky. In fact, all of them are... Honestly, who injects cooking oil into their face!?
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Australian has 'world-first' conscious brain surgery Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
An Australian man was conscious and spoke to his medical team during life-saving brain surgery in what doctors are claiming as a world-first procedure with cutting-edge technology.
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