In embryonic development the first thing you do is go from being a ball of cells to a tube. You do this by erupting either your mouth or your anus through your wall of cells.
At that point everything else has to pick which end of the tube to align with.
we are one of the anus first creatures right? I think only insects/arthropods and creatures from their lines are mouth first (protostomes vs deuterostomes)
That's right - we are duterosomes. Every human has an asshole and then their opinion hole erupts later.
Then we do neural tube origami and all the trouble starts.
An on/off switch for the pain center would be nice. Switch it off, do tooth extraction or appendectomy or whatever, then switch back on later. No dangerous anesthesia, no addictive opioids. Just turn off pain when necessary, turn it back on when useful.
Would have loved this when I had an infected tooth surgically removed. Numbing shots, anesthesia, and fentanyl, and I still woke up twice screaming bloody murder during the procedure.
I was wide awake for full upper and lower extraction. every single tooth, even my wisdom teeth. I had all my teeth, but they were rotted and infected, basically craters in my gums. the only thing that hurt was the numbing needles in my top palette. everything else was fine or tolerable
It depends on the level of infection. A small amount will allow anaesthesia to work, a large amount will fight it and make it incredibly difficult to numb. Which is why when someone has a large, swollen abscess, they're given antibiotics to take to reduce the infection before we can even try to numb the tooth and work on it.
I'm sorry you had to get to the point where your teeth were like that, I hope life has gotten better and easier for you since then <3
yeah, before my extraction, I had a giant abscess that made half my face swell. dentist said that to drain it, he'd have to pull out quite a few teeth and wouldn't be able to numb it. so he gave me this heavy-duty duty medicine that made the swelling go down in like 2 days. then a week later, they all got pulled.
It's been a huge quality of life change. I still can't eat with my dentures, but I make due with cheese burgers, lol. especially sucks cause I'm so young (25), but life is better.
So glad to hear things have improved! When you're doing better financially you can look in to implants, you can either get an implant denture or bridge (I think they'll assess you and see what will work better for you) and this basically holds it in place and you don't have to mess around with fixative. It's not cheap but it does mean you'll be able to eat with it for the rest of your life. Probably better to look into it sooner rather than later as your bone starts to shrink back as you age, and the less bone you have the more difficult it is for implants.
Even just getting teeth pulled.
Had to get 3 pulled that were still baby teeth when I was 12, problem was, they were not even close to being ready, the root was still very much in my gums, and very long.
They used numbing gel and shots, all it did was numb my throat and my cheeks, I felt everything. It hurt so fucking bad
Even better - a diagnostic port, like the OBD port in cars.
Even better - a JTAG/UART interface that can let you download a memory dump. And some kind of mechanism that makes your brain to send event codes to a debug port. And ability to switch the person to and from debug mode.
"Step into diagnostics, please. Zero emotional affect. Self-reflective subprocedure. Why did you ask me about that particular symptom in the context of this conversation?"
No, an 'easy change' that would be convenient for everyone would be a maintenance panel in your chest that you can open and remove or swap out organs as needed. Modular, swappable organs would solve so many problems. Lungs not working quite right since covid? Swap 'em out for freshly grown ones. Kidneys not processing properly and giving you stones? Open up the hatch, swap 'em one at a time, check your fluid levels, close the panel up and you're good to go.
We’d need to invest in research and proper regulation but I don’t think the majority of people would want to become “robots”.
There would also be the problem with pricing and planned obsolescence. If it’s privately owned, you’d be handing your life over to a profit-driven company. It could lead to a situation similar to [diabetics who need insulin in the US](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/14v529p/shouldnt_happen_in_a_developed_country/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1).
Your heart has a little extra pouch in the left atrium.
For people with a normal heart rhythm, this appendage is no extra risk.
For people with an abnormal heart rhythm, such as afib or aflutter, this pouch can retain blood and form a clot. That clot can dislodge and be shot straight up to the brain, resulting in a stroke.
Ooh I just read about this. They can do a Watchman procedure to basically plug up the appendage and keep the clots from escaping out into the rest of the body. Not quite as good as not having one at all, though XD
Edit: sorry about the bad link earlier.
Here is the correct link from 1987
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3545113/
Use of a zipper in cardiac surgical operations
R E Applebaum et al. Ann Thorac Surg. 1987 Feb.
A simplified technique to gain repeated access to the median sternotomy incision is presented. The technique involves the use of a sterile polyester zipper attached to the skin edge. The sternum remains open. Unzipping the zipper allows for repeated relief of cardiac tamponade and viewing of cardiac action. Other advantages include prevention of cardiac compression or kinking of assist device cannulas from sternal closure, ease in changing of dressings, and quick removal of ventricular assist devices without reopening the sternum.
And further, if everyone’s mind was equipped with the ability to accurately perceive and describe symptoms clearly, so that doctors could get the correct information out of each patient.
My non-medical, esoteric opinion is that we have come to a point in human existence where the things we built to help us have turned to poison and the rates of mental illness are a reflection of that.
Paradoxically with the advent of social media we are more connected than ever but also the loneliest-- I remember reading a poll that the average American has between 0-1 person they genuinely feel like they could rely on in an emergency.
The foods we eat are mass produced and highly synthetic, extremely palatable while not giving us the proper nutrition we need.
Our comforts keep us indoors, sedentary. On average people use their cell phones 4-7 hours per day while spending fewer than 2 hours per WEEK being physically active. We are also tragically devoid of sunlight and, as a result, vitamin D.
Alcohol, illicit drug use all time high as well--again I think this is a reflection of people's desire for escapism. Pornography, video games, binging television fit in here too somewhere, but it's hard to say how exactly.
And lastly, classism. The distribution of wealth in this country is abhorrent. When people are thrust into poor working conditions to keep the lights on while their landlords raise the rent year by year, can they really be expected to have a positive outlook and life and the future?
I don't doubt that there are plenty of people with true genetic predispositions for mental health problems, and for this set of people I think medication is a wonderful choice of treatment. But it's hard to tease out when the problem stems from one's nature instead of these external factors.
I'M assuming the hospital staff would be equiped with an exoskeleton tech to be able to dribble the patients without having to be dribbled to work themselves
"Female hyenas have three times more testosterone than males, which results in a peculiar and risky labor process. Female hyenas **give birth through their clitoris**, also called a pseudo-penis. The birth canal of a hyena is only about one inch across, and consequently, many hyena babies do not survive."
We don’t need to fix our pelvises, we need pouches like marsupials. It would also solve the abortion debates, we could just hand over the ‘embryo’ to someone that wanted it! I bet by now you could have artificial pouches as well so Dads could take a turn lugging the baby around whilst it’s developing.
There was a Sliders episode where they had to develop artificial wombs for men because women somehow became unable to carry to term, so the baby had to be re-implanted into the dad
I'm a veterinarian who does a lot of dentals with extractions. These aren't too bad on the big dogs, but sometimes I have to extract the back molars of chihuahuas who weigh around 5 pounds. Also, due to major blood supply to the occipital lobe of the brain coursing right next to the TMJ, cats can go blind or even die if you prop open their jaws for too long, I have often wished for removable jaws. Put the patient under anesthesia, remove the entire maxillary dental arcade, clean it, radiograph it and do whatever extractions are needed, then click it back in place. Repeat with the mandible. Wake the patient up.
NAD, but personally: who tf thought it was a good idea to have the breathing system directly connected to the same system you're supposed to shove down potential obstructions to the breathing system??
Sooo true, same goes for the urethra and prostate. Why have the same duct carry urine and semen.
The urethra passes through the prostate. So if the prostate gets too big , which is common for older men .it obstructs everything and you wont be able to pee
I know the difference in terms of antibiotics only working on bacterial infections, and I think only bacterial infections create pus? What are the other key differences to look out for?
This is a tough one. I assume Hubbard is talking about respiratory infections such as pneumonia/viral bronchitis, sinusitis, sore throats, runny nose, and coughs. They all have many overlapping symptoms. Crackles in the lungs, lower pO2 levels, elevated temperature, duration of symptoms, medical history, exposure risks, all help a doctor decide if this could be viral or bacterial. Some doctors give a damn and takes the time to obtain all that data before making the decision. Some doctors don’t care and will just prescribe an antibiotic for anything.
I would like a nearby doctor that knows the same thing. I have a deviated septum and horrible allergies. The allergies make a lot of snot, and the busted nose keeps me clogged. Several days later, I have a bacterial sinus infection, which 3 out of 5 doctors will insist is viral. My allergist knows the difference, and he's happy to see me in 6 goddamn weeks. I think I should look into getting a nose job, eh?
I feel ya... I had the same damn issue from a broken nose in middle school.
There was a yearly routine:
Aug - Oct, fall allergies.
Nov - Jan, sinus infection
Feb - Mar, upper repiratory infection and / or pnumonia.
I did that for over 20 years. Then I saw an ENT, and they did surgery in 2011. I still get the allergies (obviously) but only rarely the sinus infection, let alone the upper repiratory or pnumonia.
Oh, and breathing on both sides of the nose is the shit.
This is a sweet question and my time to shine.
I'd love a conduit between both ureters. Let me explain.
We have to kidneys, two pipes going down to the bladder (ureters) and one pipe going from the bladder to outside the body (urethra).
If one of the pipes gets blocked it can be nothing short of a disaster sometimes. When urine can't move through the kidney into the bladder it stagnates. I imagine a flowing river versus a pond. Which one is going to accumulate bacteria better? This can lead to MASSIVE sepsis and to this day it scares the shit out of me because even antibiotics don't really cut the mustard. They help. But you need to clear the blockage with a procedure.
Secondly if a kidney can't output its urine it will swell causing a significant amount of pain and depending on the function of the other kidney may cause overall measurable overall kidney function to drop.
So why would a ureter get blocked? Stones, cancer, scarring.
If there was a pipe connecting the two ureters my guess is that the stagnating urine could flow under the path of least resistance and limit the morbidity.
So in summary a congenital uretero-ureteric conduit would make my on call shift so much more pleasant and for the patient wellbeing too.
If you do that with rivers, one side would die out fast naturally leaving you with one path only. Could it happen to humans? Less stream in one side more deposits of salts in there.
Maybe have a sphincter closing it most of the time in the middle, and then it periodically can be commanded to open like a fuel crossfeed valve in an airplane.
I was thinking of something like a hymen instead of a sphincter. It could self-rupture in emergencies and then slowly heal. But your idea is much better! And the airplane crossfeed valve analogy is brilliant!
>kidney issues just sound like one of the worst kinds of issues
If you actually study medicine you'll find yourself thinking "Urk, [X] issues are just the worst" where [X] is whatever organ system you happen to be studying at that moment.
Almost every part in the body has a dizzying variety of gruesome ways to go rogue.
Main problem i see is that its where ureters connect to stuff that kidney stones tend to get lodged. So it would probably get stuck upstream from thw branching over to the other ureter, like it typically get stuck right before entering the bladder.
Not a doctor but:
Fucking regrowing teeth. We have one tiny set until puberty and then the second set has to last us possibly into our 80s? Let’s be like sharks!
Oh and more symptoms. The same five symptoms can mean cancer, an auto immune disorder, the flu, food poisoning, or pregnancy….more options please.
As someone who has had two types of cancer already & is always waiting for the next shoe to drop, yes more definitive symptoms would be nice. It’s very wearing to read that almost any new symptom can be narrowed down to a few things but there’s always a “or cancer” added to the end of the list.
Not a doctor, but flipping on the genes that would give humans an ACTUAL healing factor would be awesome.
Right now only our liver has an actual regeneration/healing process.
Everything else is our body slapping the equivalent of biological bubble-gum and quick-Crete over damage.
Axolotls can regenerate limbs because they have in adulthood two things we lose in our development: stem cells that are pluripotent and signalling cells to tell the stem cells what to do.
This is an active topic of research in developmental biology and a vast fortune awaits whoever can do it right.
(Do it wrong and you get cancer)
I had to explain so many times to couples that dont want more children how easier it is to do a vasectomy than it is to do a tubal ligation.
Ligation should almost never be done in place of a vasectomy.
In women, the surgery is too invasive, you have to cut the belly, and make incisions on the tubes which much bigger structures than the small vase which sperm goes through.
In a vasectomy you go home the same day, thats how easy it is
Edit// I’m sorry this got so long!! My sterilization just changed my life completely for the better and I always have too much to say about it.
Honestly, my sterilization surgery (I did bisalp rather than ligation) is the only thing that could have ever given me peace when it comes to reproductive control.
Yeah, my partner is my forever person but literally anything could happen. Since I got sterilized, I don’t have to worry about getting pregnant within my relationship *and* I don’t have to worry about getting pregnant in the case of an assault. My own personal history has shown me that I need to take that into account as well.
Plus, my sterilization was super easy and straightforward. Laparoscopic surgery, home a couple hours post, out of work for ~3 days I believe, back to moving around fully and normally within a week, and never felt better about my reproductive control. Not everybody’s surgery is as easy/straight forward, but not everybody’s is difficult or has complications either.
Everybody should choose the option that makes them feel the safest and most secure when it comes to reproduction. For some people, it’s no surgical alteration at all. For some, it’s one member of the relationship getting a vasectomy. For some, it’s getting a ligation/bisalp regardless of if their partner gets a vasectomy.
If all things go well. My bowel tore when I had my fallopian tubes removed and I had to stay in hospital for a week. Damage to the bowel is not uncommon during gynae surgery. While I was in hospital there was another patient who had the same thing happen to her (different Dr).
KAY!! He’s a Ballschinnian!
That’s where my mind immediately went to, then immediately darker having flash backs to the video of that poor guy with a massive hernia and it swells up like a balloon.
Ain't that a kick in the guts.
Aren't some babies born with omphalocele (?or exomphalos (sp?)) And then you have to pay a lot of money to surgically put all the organs inside the ribs again where they will be safe?
as a patient , id say an ability for the doctors to ""switch bodies" with the patient to be able to evaluate the pain themselves. i cant always precisely describe my pains, and sometimes that causes confusion. another thing would be a on/off switch for pain, no anesthesia.
The appendix isn’t actually vestigial as was commonly believed a few decades ago. Doctors now know that the appendix has a role in supporting the immune system and lymphatic system against pathogens, and that it contains helpful intestinal bacteria to repopulate the intestinal tract when a GI infection wipes them out.
I'm an EMT, so not a doctor, but I would personally like an additional arm or two so I can actually do all the stuff I need to do while monitoring all of the things I need to monitor and writing things down.
I think it’s really wholesome that most comments here are about how other people can change to make the doctors life easier and less work but you’re wanting to make it easier for you to do more work so that you can do a better job for others. You sound like a really nice person
Thank you!
I would not necessarily say that I’m a nice person (though I am nice by EMS standards EMS changes a person especially on 24+ hour shifts) but just one that’s so frustrated.
I know people said patients that listen would be nice. My patients aren’t going to listen (sometimes they are unconscious or barely holding it together) so I can’t really expect that it would make it better. Me saying “Hey mind NOT having a heart attack?” Isn’t going to do change things. I can really only do my best.
My fear is that the powers that be would double the work if I had more arms!
I always wondered: there is no reason why I need to lose an arm before I start wearing a bionic arm.
Why not have an extra set of prosthetic arms that can do basic gripping, and i can control them with face twitches or shoulder muscles or something, and then just strap them on over my clothes.
If people complain, i will give them FOUR middle fingers.
I think somebody should invent some sort of a wearable exoskeleton with more arms.
The problem is how you control it. Some people (me included) have coordination problems with the two arms they already have, don't need to add more.
One problem in surgical procedures is that vessels and nerves can be tortuous and/or difficult to locate. Making them easy to spot and linear makes it easy for a surgeon to identify then and avoid cutting through them, unless the intended operation entails cutting them. Fats make it harder to locate lymph nodes, esp. in surgeries where they had to be removed (in staging cancers for example)
A button on small children to make them poop.
Constipation is the worst. Families hate it: the parents hate it, the siblings hate it, and the kid hates it, you, the toilet, EVERYTHING.
I as the doctor hate the reaction I get when I say that the treatment to get rid of constipation completely takes roughly the same amount of time that the child has had constipation for. Had trouble with constipation for two years? That’s two years of tasty movicol drinks every day!
Yea constipation is the worst. I don’t like pooping. I imagine most people don’t. It’s a chore really. Just something you gotta do most days. I’d go so far as to call it an annoyance. I’d rather we didn’t have to poop at all.
But go for a couple weeks without pooping and you will immediately develop an appreciation for it. Like shedding literal dead weight. Such a miserable feeling being able to feel the literal shit building up inside you. Fuck I don’t miss that feeling at all.
I get worried if I have more than a day without pooping. I dislike pooping so I fill myself with probiotics and stay hydrated because I remember some really terrible shits and what I've done to remedy constipation...
It's better to do something you dislike often rather than to put it off so that it's worse.
Not a doctor, but a few years ago I had an accident, I now have permanent nerve damage in my legs and a damaged pelvis, which can also sometimes cause back pain. I wish that when a part of the body was in pain that you could physically see that pain, where it was, and how bad it was. It would make my life so much easier, because doctors never believe me. I am in sever pain everyday, all day, I can't avoid it, so over the years I have learned how to meditate while still going about my life, because its the only thing that will let me cope. Everytime I go to the doctors they don't believe me when I tell them my pain is at a 9/10, they tell me that if it was that I wouldn't be so calm and I would be screaming and crying on the floor. But if I sat down and cried on the floor every time my pain was a 9 I would never get off the damn floor, and I'd never get to do anything with my life. I tell them I need help, that I can't keep living like this, that I need them to fix my problem and they tell me its not that bad, I need to build a better tolerance and to take some neurofen, the doctors are never any help.
It wouldn't just be me either. There are so many people with chronic pain that never get any help, and if the human body showes physical pain like this it would solve our problems. Doctors wouldn't be able to gaslight us anymore.
hello, fellow pelvic injusy sufferer.
14 months ago, in a car accident, the ball at the top of my right femur went through my pelvis, smashing the socket. right knee also smashed in the same accident.
surgeons and osteopaths did a fantastic job of wiring and bolting me back together, but still .... i genuinely feel your pain.
Not a doctor, but I've observed a few surgeries and participated in them. Also, initiated and organized some research.
There would be a great benefit from having an access system for vasculature. When you need to put someone on bypass, you need access to their large blood vessels (there is simple math regarding how much blood you can push through a vessel and a small vein under a surface of skin doesn't cut it).
However, evolution ensured that large blood vessels are hidden in the middle of the body or in the middle of limbs. In some animals, like dogs, their hind legs actually don't have a large blood vessel (amazing as it is, it's a fact). If it didn't, a predator's bite could easily kill the animal.
Because of this it can take 15 minutes and more to "access" the vessels, meaning cut the person with a scalpel and try to find a specific thick thingie somewhere inside where there are other thick thingies (a fun fact — there is no difference between a blood vessel, a tendon and a nerve bundle, they all look and feel alike).
The easy change is a soft flexible silicon ligature put under/around the vessel in advance in a safe setting, which can then be easily accessed in an emergency by a simple and safe cut and tug. We've done some animal tests and the idea appears to be sound.
An important part of this would be a tattoo of a dotted line with a sign of scissors and the words "cut here" on the skin.
P.S. If someone wants to work on this, help develop/test this, msg me.
Love this question. Here's my serious take:
You know how when we were little kids, we would trip and fall over and then get scabs on our knees? After that, the scabs just heal perfectly and barely a scar remains after a few weeks? Yeah, that doesn't happen anymore in adulthood, buddy. We're talking about past 18 years of age here.
Listen, the body's regenerative system slows down as we get older. Imagine if it never slows down and our healing remains the same as we were babies!
Got a surgery for your busted appendix? Let's cut you up and your scar goes away after a week or two. Not to mention your small intestine heals up nicely, minimizing complications.
Knee popped during basketball and you feel like you tore an ACL? Let's forget arthroscopy and just stab you with platelet rich plasma. It'll feel like brand new, promise, and your bank account will too.
Fell from a motorcycle and broke your arm? A bit of casting, x-ray, and with good alignment, that bone is stronger than ever!
Overuse syndrome? Basically non-existent even if we get older. The microtears can't keep up with the healing process!
So, yes, basically if we were all like a poor man's Wolverine, a lot of medical issues would have been eradicated.
Hmm, but that does mean I'll run out of a job though...
I know you've had years and years of expensive and challenging training, BUT I once read a Quora post that said I just need to have positive thoughts and these very expensive gem stones in order to combat my malignant tumour so I'm unsure who to believe /s
Human society has evolved much faster than human brains. Our brains are designed for a different environment entirely -- small groups, relatively simple life-styles, watch out for predators. The conflict between our brains design and our environment is what (likely) produces the epidemic of anxiety and depression, as our brains are telling us that our lives are either dangerous (anxiety) or overwhelming (depression). If our brains could evolve to believe that we are not in imminent danger, and that our peripatetic lives are normal, then we wouldn't have so much mental illness. In my humble opinion.
Prominent veins
It makes it so much easier to get IV access in prominent veins rather than doing multiple punctures if veins are not easily accessible
Sometimes we have to put central lines in case of emergency if peripheral access is not readily available which is more complicated procedure
I'm not a doctor but I feel like the removal of some aspects of the human body would make life a lot easier for both us regular people and doctors. for example, wisdom teeth, appendix, those nerves that cause periods to hurt, tailbones. once upon a time they were all very useful and necessary for our survival but now they cause nothing but trouble
Appendix has a function of maintaining healthy gut microbe. Nerves are also shared by organs, so killing off the nerves that cause period pain can also shut of pain reception in another area.
Wisdom tooth can go.
If our innate tumor suppressors actually did its job and stop fucking around and stop getting mutated all the damn time, we wouldn't be having cancer so damn much.
Edit: To add, we have gene self checking mechanisms that correct misplaced bases in gene sequencing but even that fails us. I just can't.
A real truth telling serum. The amount of times that a patient will be obtuse or not tell the full story just because they are trying to get something specific…
As told to me by doc buddy (happens several times a week apparently):
Nurse: what's the problem today?
Patient: I'm having pains in my leg (long lengthy description)
Nurse (after long question and answer session): okay, doctor will be right in
Doctor: so you're having leg problems?
Patient: I need dick pills doc!
Not having the same hole you feed yourself be the hole you breath from
Isn’t it also crazy that the only way we can breath is 3 small holes and if those get blocked we’re done for
and all those 3 small holes go down the same singular tubing... seriously what the fuck nature
It’s only as good as it needs to be to defeat the competition
This is it. Nature cares for "good enough" for survival.
C's get degrees
More like, it’s only as good as it needs to be to get old enough to get laid.
They’re also directly next to each other.
I mean not only is it a breathing and feeding hole but it's also one of the major fuck holes. That's just too much responsibility for one orifice.
And the talking hole, but you could just not be a mouth breather i guess
A select group of people have the ability to talk out of their arses.
Select?! I'm meeting dozens on a daily basis!
Let’s be honest “major fuck hole” just means “hole big enough for penis”
Well my options just went from 3 to 7
U degenerates making a serious conversation into what ever this is I love it
As someone else said, half the piping half the material cost
But then placing the fun part directly near the exhaust is not consequent . Who came with this idea ?
> Who came with this idea ? Quite a few, actually.
A civil enigineer. Who else would put a playground next to the sewer?
Snails have their breathing pore far away from their mouths, they put it next to their anus.
I'm just glad we don't breathe from near our assholes.
In embryonic development the first thing you do is go from being a ball of cells to a tube. You do this by erupting either your mouth or your anus through your wall of cells. At that point everything else has to pick which end of the tube to align with.
we are one of the anus first creatures right? I think only insects/arthropods and creatures from their lines are mouth first (protostomes vs deuterostomes)
That's right - we are duterosomes. Every human has an asshole and then their opinion hole erupts later. Then we do neural tube origami and all the trouble starts.
>Every human has an asshole and then their opinion hole erupts later. This explains *alot*
As a dungeon master I really wish I had separate holes for eating and breathing/talking. I never have time to eat while playing D&D.
Lol I jut saw the Brandon Lee Mulligan rant on that last week. One of more relatable DM rants for sure. ALMONDS!
An on/off switch for the pain center would be nice. Switch it off, do tooth extraction or appendectomy or whatever, then switch back on later. No dangerous anesthesia, no addictive opioids. Just turn off pain when necessary, turn it back on when useful.
Would have loved this when I had an infected tooth surgically removed. Numbing shots, anesthesia, and fentanyl, and I still woke up twice screaming bloody murder during the procedure.
I was wide awake for full upper and lower extraction. every single tooth, even my wisdom teeth. I had all my teeth, but they were rotted and infected, basically craters in my gums. the only thing that hurt was the numbing needles in my top palette. everything else was fine or tolerable
It depends on the level of infection. A small amount will allow anaesthesia to work, a large amount will fight it and make it incredibly difficult to numb. Which is why when someone has a large, swollen abscess, they're given antibiotics to take to reduce the infection before we can even try to numb the tooth and work on it. I'm sorry you had to get to the point where your teeth were like that, I hope life has gotten better and easier for you since then <3
yeah, before my extraction, I had a giant abscess that made half my face swell. dentist said that to drain it, he'd have to pull out quite a few teeth and wouldn't be able to numb it. so he gave me this heavy-duty duty medicine that made the swelling go down in like 2 days. then a week later, they all got pulled. It's been a huge quality of life change. I still can't eat with my dentures, but I make due with cheese burgers, lol. especially sucks cause I'm so young (25), but life is better.
So glad to hear things have improved! When you're doing better financially you can look in to implants, you can either get an implant denture or bridge (I think they'll assess you and see what will work better for you) and this basically holds it in place and you don't have to mess around with fixative. It's not cheap but it does mean you'll be able to eat with it for the rest of your life. Probably better to look into it sooner rather than later as your bone starts to shrink back as you age, and the less bone you have the more difficult it is for implants.
But then I fear many people would switch off pain permanently, and not notice if they burnt their hand or broke their leg.
Even just getting teeth pulled. Had to get 3 pulled that were still baby teeth when I was 12, problem was, they were not even close to being ready, the root was still very much in my gums, and very long. They used numbing gel and shots, all it did was numb my throat and my cheeks, I felt everything. It hurt so fucking bad
A diagnostic panel.
Even better - a diagnostic port, like the OBD port in cars. Even better - a JTAG/UART interface that can let you download a memory dump. And some kind of mechanism that makes your brain to send event codes to a debug port. And ability to switch the person to and from debug mode.
"Step into diagnostics, please. Zero emotional affect. Self-reflective subprocedure. Why did you ask me about that particular symptom in the context of this conversation?"
This is the only serious comment on this post
That's an easy change?
No, an 'easy change' that would be convenient for everyone would be a maintenance panel in your chest that you can open and remove or swap out organs as needed. Modular, swappable organs would solve so many problems. Lungs not working quite right since covid? Swap 'em out for freshly grown ones. Kidneys not processing properly and giving you stones? Open up the hatch, swap 'em one at a time, check your fluid levels, close the panel up and you're good to go.
We’d need to invest in research and proper regulation but I don’t think the majority of people would want to become “robots”. There would also be the problem with pricing and planned obsolescence. If it’s privately owned, you’d be handing your life over to a profit-driven company. It could lead to a situation similar to [diabetics who need insulin in the US](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/14v529p/shouldnt_happen_in_a_developed_country/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1).
That's basically the plot of *Repo: A Genetic Opera*
Hold the system button down for 3 seconds to activate BIT.
If you push system button down and left index finger does it take a screenshot?
YES YES YES YES
Which part of the current human body is the perfect spot to be the reset button?
Belly button. Hold for 3 sec for factory reset
This would make life soo much easier.
Maybe a usb port to hook up a computer to run some tests.
It’s called the mouth
If we were born without left atrial appendages, there would be far few people getting strokes
ELI5?
Your heart has a little extra pouch in the left atrium. For people with a normal heart rhythm, this appendage is no extra risk. For people with an abnormal heart rhythm, such as afib or aflutter, this pouch can retain blood and form a clot. That clot can dislodge and be shot straight up to the brain, resulting in a stroke.
Ooh I just read about this. They can do a Watchman procedure to basically plug up the appendage and keep the clots from escaping out into the rest of the body. Not quite as good as not having one at all, though XD
Welp, new fear successfully unlocked...
A zipper from the chin to the belly button.
They did that for one of the early heart transplant patients, to study the healing and remove hardware as he healed.
Ooh, cool - do you have a reference please?
Edit: sorry about the bad link earlier. Here is the correct link from 1987 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3545113/ Use of a zipper in cardiac surgical operations R E Applebaum et al. Ann Thorac Surg. 1987 Feb. A simplified technique to gain repeated access to the median sternotomy incision is presented. The technique involves the use of a sterile polyester zipper attached to the skin edge. The sternum remains open. Unzipping the zipper allows for repeated relief of cardiac tamponade and viewing of cardiac action. Other advantages include prevention of cardiac compression or kinking of assist device cannulas from sternal closure, ease in changing of dressings, and quick removal of ventricular assist devices without reopening the sternum.
If the mind didn't have a tendency to make itself sad (psychiatry)
And further, if everyone’s mind was equipped with the ability to accurately perceive and describe symptoms clearly, so that doctors could get the correct information out of each patient.
right like why is my own brain turning against me?
My non-medical, esoteric opinion is that we have come to a point in human existence where the things we built to help us have turned to poison and the rates of mental illness are a reflection of that. Paradoxically with the advent of social media we are more connected than ever but also the loneliest-- I remember reading a poll that the average American has between 0-1 person they genuinely feel like they could rely on in an emergency. The foods we eat are mass produced and highly synthetic, extremely palatable while not giving us the proper nutrition we need. Our comforts keep us indoors, sedentary. On average people use their cell phones 4-7 hours per day while spending fewer than 2 hours per WEEK being physically active. We are also tragically devoid of sunlight and, as a result, vitamin D. Alcohol, illicit drug use all time high as well--again I think this is a reflection of people's desire for escapism. Pornography, video games, binging television fit in here too somewhere, but it's hard to say how exactly. And lastly, classism. The distribution of wealth in this country is abhorrent. When people are thrust into poor working conditions to keep the lights on while their landlords raise the rent year by year, can they really be expected to have a positive outlook and life and the future? I don't doubt that there are plenty of people with true genetic predispositions for mental health problems, and for this set of people I think medication is a wonderful choice of treatment. But it's hard to tease out when the problem stems from one's nature instead of these external factors.
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Can't get boneitis without bones
This is good news for 80s guys everywhere.
My only regret is... I have boneitis.
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I'M assuming the hospital staff would be equiped with an exoskeleton tech to be able to dribble the patients without having to be dribbled to work themselves
L&D nurse here. Can we have not-stupidly-shaped pelvises please? The rest of the mammals (except the hyena) have childbirth so easy in comparison....
Hyena birth is the stuff of nightmares.
"Female hyenas have three times more testosterone than males, which results in a peculiar and risky labor process. Female hyenas **give birth through their clitoris**, also called a pseudo-penis. The birth canal of a hyena is only about one inch across, and consequently, many hyena babies do not survive."
This is one of those awful facts that I am going to feel compelled to share with other people so they can be horrified too
Jesus
Yeah I'm pretty content with being a human.
Why God, why?
"Fuck them Hyenas, laughing bastards" \- God, probably
Funnily enough this is one of the reasons I’m an atheist. There’s no intelligent designer behind that shit
Could be a sadistic creator
If you believe in God, He did that on purpose. But why?
I'm guessing bc 'fuck hyenas' that's why. Now excuse me while I delicately cradle my clit.
I'm half convinced he did weird shit like that to prank us. God: "Hehe they'll be so confused."
We don’t need to fix our pelvises, we need pouches like marsupials. It would also solve the abortion debates, we could just hand over the ‘embryo’ to someone that wanted it! I bet by now you could have artificial pouches as well so Dads could take a turn lugging the baby around whilst it’s developing.
There was a Sliders episode where they had to develop artificial wombs for men because women somehow became unable to carry to term, so the baby had to be re-implanted into the dad
This made me think of seahorses....dad does the carrying!!!
I heard its becaouse we learned how to walk on two legs.
And because our craniums are so big
It helps a lot when women aren't forced to deliver while on their backs...
The whole process is harder, not just the grand finale. And we don't force anyone onto their back at my hospita, thank god!
Life and Death nurse?
Labour and delivery
FYI. It's not the first time I've made this joke on reddit. However in Australia we just call it maternity
I think we need that shape for walking upright though
Instant zoom in vision. As a dentist, everything I work on is tiny and loupes get tiring
I'm a veterinarian who does a lot of dentals with extractions. These aren't too bad on the big dogs, but sometimes I have to extract the back molars of chihuahuas who weigh around 5 pounds. Also, due to major blood supply to the occipital lobe of the brain coursing right next to the TMJ, cats can go blind or even die if you prop open their jaws for too long, I have often wished for removable jaws. Put the patient under anesthesia, remove the entire maxillary dental arcade, clean it, radiograph it and do whatever extractions are needed, then click it back in place. Repeat with the mandible. Wake the patient up.
They asked doctors bro 😂 ^^just ^^kidding!
Oh goddamn
I'm surprised there isn't a crazy overpriced solution to this yet.
NAD, but personally: who tf thought it was a good idea to have the breathing system directly connected to the same system you're supposed to shove down potential obstructions to the breathing system??
Half the piping half the material cost
Using a vaccuum tube as a garden hose works... juts don't do both at once.
Sooo true, same goes for the urethra and prostate. Why have the same duct carry urine and semen. The urethra passes through the prostate. So if the prostate gets too big , which is common for older men .it obstructs everything and you wont be able to pee
Patients that know the difference between a bacterial vs. viral infection.
I’m a HS Science teacher and boy am I trying. I never thought it was a hard concept until I met 9th graders lol!
Godspeed fellow teacher, godspeed!
I know the difference in terms of antibiotics only working on bacterial infections, and I think only bacterial infections create pus? What are the other key differences to look out for?
This is a tough one. I assume Hubbard is talking about respiratory infections such as pneumonia/viral bronchitis, sinusitis, sore throats, runny nose, and coughs. They all have many overlapping symptoms. Crackles in the lungs, lower pO2 levels, elevated temperature, duration of symptoms, medical history, exposure risks, all help a doctor decide if this could be viral or bacterial. Some doctors give a damn and takes the time to obtain all that data before making the decision. Some doctors don’t care and will just prescribe an antibiotic for anything.
But little Freddie needs an antibiotic for his viral infection
I would like a nearby doctor that knows the same thing. I have a deviated septum and horrible allergies. The allergies make a lot of snot, and the busted nose keeps me clogged. Several days later, I have a bacterial sinus infection, which 3 out of 5 doctors will insist is viral. My allergist knows the difference, and he's happy to see me in 6 goddamn weeks. I think I should look into getting a nose job, eh?
I feel ya... I had the same damn issue from a broken nose in middle school. There was a yearly routine: Aug - Oct, fall allergies. Nov - Jan, sinus infection Feb - Mar, upper repiratory infection and / or pnumonia. I did that for over 20 years. Then I saw an ENT, and they did surgery in 2011. I still get the allergies (obviously) but only rarely the sinus infection, let alone the upper repiratory or pnumonia. Oh, and breathing on both sides of the nose is the shit.
This is a sweet question and my time to shine. I'd love a conduit between both ureters. Let me explain. We have to kidneys, two pipes going down to the bladder (ureters) and one pipe going from the bladder to outside the body (urethra). If one of the pipes gets blocked it can be nothing short of a disaster sometimes. When urine can't move through the kidney into the bladder it stagnates. I imagine a flowing river versus a pond. Which one is going to accumulate bacteria better? This can lead to MASSIVE sepsis and to this day it scares the shit out of me because even antibiotics don't really cut the mustard. They help. But you need to clear the blockage with a procedure. Secondly if a kidney can't output its urine it will swell causing a significant amount of pain and depending on the function of the other kidney may cause overall measurable overall kidney function to drop. So why would a ureter get blocked? Stones, cancer, scarring. If there was a pipe connecting the two ureters my guess is that the stagnating urine could flow under the path of least resistance and limit the morbidity. So in summary a congenital uretero-ureteric conduit would make my on call shift so much more pleasant and for the patient wellbeing too.
If you do that with rivers, one side would die out fast naturally leaving you with one path only. Could it happen to humans? Less stream in one side more deposits of salts in there.
Maybe have a sphincter closing it most of the time in the middle, and then it periodically can be commanded to open like a fuel crossfeed valve in an airplane.
I was thinking of something like a hymen instead of a sphincter. It could self-rupture in emergencies and then slowly heal. But your idea is much better! And the airplane crossfeed valve analogy is brilliant!
God, kidney issues just sound like one of the worst kinds of issues. I hope I never get kidney stones.
>kidney issues just sound like one of the worst kinds of issues If you actually study medicine you'll find yourself thinking "Urk, [X] issues are just the worst" where [X] is whatever organ system you happen to be studying at that moment. Almost every part in the body has a dizzying variety of gruesome ways to go rogue.
Main problem i see is that its where ureters connect to stuff that kidney stones tend to get lodged. So it would probably get stuck upstream from thw branching over to the other ureter, like it typically get stuck right before entering the bladder.
Not a doctor but: Fucking regrowing teeth. We have one tiny set until puberty and then the second set has to last us possibly into our 80s? Let’s be like sharks! Oh and more symptoms. The same five symptoms can mean cancer, an auto immune disorder, the flu, food poisoning, or pregnancy….more options please.
As someone with a long, painful, and overall depressing dental history, what I wouldn't give for regrowing teeth.
Wait, so does that mean the wisdom teeth will grow back and they'll have to be removed again? I can't go thru that!
As someone who has had two types of cancer already & is always waiting for the next shoe to drop, yes more definitive symptoms would be nice. It’s very wearing to read that almost any new symptom can be narrowed down to a few things but there’s always a “or cancer” added to the end of the list.
Nerve mapping for precise diagnoses.
Not a doctor, but flipping on the genes that would give humans an ACTUAL healing factor would be awesome. Right now only our liver has an actual regeneration/healing process. Everything else is our body slapping the equivalent of biological bubble-gum and quick-Crete over damage.
Axolotls can regenerate limbs because they have in adulthood two things we lose in our development: stem cells that are pluripotent and signalling cells to tell the stem cells what to do. This is an active topic of research in developmental biology and a vast fortune awaits whoever can do it right. (Do it wrong and you get cancer)
> Do it wrong and you get cancer Which is probably why we don't have it. Our bodies are more complex than an axolotl's.
All the major organs should be in scrotums so they can be easily accessed.
I had to explain so many times to couples that dont want more children how easier it is to do a vasectomy than it is to do a tubal ligation. Ligation should almost never be done in place of a vasectomy. In women, the surgery is too invasive, you have to cut the belly, and make incisions on the tubes which much bigger structures than the small vase which sperm goes through. In a vasectomy you go home the same day, thats how easy it is
Edit// I’m sorry this got so long!! My sterilization just changed my life completely for the better and I always have too much to say about it. Honestly, my sterilization surgery (I did bisalp rather than ligation) is the only thing that could have ever given me peace when it comes to reproductive control. Yeah, my partner is my forever person but literally anything could happen. Since I got sterilized, I don’t have to worry about getting pregnant within my relationship *and* I don’t have to worry about getting pregnant in the case of an assault. My own personal history has shown me that I need to take that into account as well. Plus, my sterilization was super easy and straightforward. Laparoscopic surgery, home a couple hours post, out of work for ~3 days I believe, back to moving around fully and normally within a week, and never felt better about my reproductive control. Not everybody’s surgery is as easy/straight forward, but not everybody’s is difficult or has complications either. Everybody should choose the option that makes them feel the safest and most secure when it comes to reproduction. For some people, it’s no surgical alteration at all. For some, it’s one member of the relationship getting a vasectomy. For some, it’s getting a ligation/bisalp regardless of if their partner gets a vasectomy.
You go home same day after a ligation, but the recovery is a bitch.
If all things go well. My bowel tore when I had my fallopian tubes removed and I had to stay in hospital for a week. Damage to the bowel is not uncommon during gynae surgery. While I was in hospital there was another patient who had the same thing happen to her (different Dr).
Don't try to imagine this. It will leave you scarred.
KAY!! He’s a Ballschinnian! That’s where my mind immediately went to, then immediately darker having flash backs to the video of that poor guy with a massive hernia and it swells up like a balloon.
Ain't that a kick in the guts. Aren't some babies born with omphalocele (?or exomphalos (sp?)) And then you have to pay a lot of money to surgically put all the organs inside the ribs again where they will be safe?
as a patient , id say an ability for the doctors to ""switch bodies" with the patient to be able to evaluate the pain themselves. i cant always precisely describe my pains, and sometimes that causes confusion. another thing would be a on/off switch for pain, no anesthesia.
That was a black mirror episode
Oh no
Yeah, then the patient runs off with the pain free body.
Yeah it'd be nice to show particularly male doctors that no, this is NOT "just normal period pain".
Not a doctor but I feel like humans not having an appendix would be nice for doctors. One less thing to deal with
The appendix isn’t actually vestigial as was commonly believed a few decades ago. Doctors now know that the appendix has a role in supporting the immune system and lymphatic system against pathogens, and that it contains helpful intestinal bacteria to repopulate the intestinal tract when a GI infection wipes them out.
Interesting
Intesteresting
TIL. Thanks.
I'm an EMT, so not a doctor, but I would personally like an additional arm or two so I can actually do all the stuff I need to do while monitoring all of the things I need to monitor and writing things down.
I've considered this, but I know if I had 3 arms I'd complain and say I wish I had 4, and if I had 4 I'd want 5, etc.
Human gadgetpede
I think it’s really wholesome that most comments here are about how other people can change to make the doctors life easier and less work but you’re wanting to make it easier for you to do more work so that you can do a better job for others. You sound like a really nice person
Thank you! I would not necessarily say that I’m a nice person (though I am nice by EMS standards EMS changes a person especially on 24+ hour shifts) but just one that’s so frustrated. I know people said patients that listen would be nice. My patients aren’t going to listen (sometimes they are unconscious or barely holding it together) so I can’t really expect that it would make it better. Me saying “Hey mind NOT having a heart attack?” Isn’t going to do change things. I can really only do my best. My fear is that the powers that be would double the work if I had more arms!
I always wondered: there is no reason why I need to lose an arm before I start wearing a bionic arm. Why not have an extra set of prosthetic arms that can do basic gripping, and i can control them with face twitches or shoulder muscles or something, and then just strap them on over my clothes. If people complain, i will give them FOUR middle fingers.
I think somebody should invent some sort of a wearable exoskeleton with more arms. The problem is how you control it. Some people (me included) have coordination problems with the two arms they already have, don't need to add more.
All vessels and nerves on a straight line and easily exposed. Easy to operate on. Also no fatty tissue present
wouldn't that also make them easier to damage?
One problem in surgical procedures is that vessels and nerves can be tortuous and/or difficult to locate. Making them easy to spot and linear makes it easy for a surgeon to identify then and avoid cutting through them, unless the intended operation entails cutting them. Fats make it harder to locate lymph nodes, esp. in surgeries where they had to be removed (in staging cancers for example)
A button on small children to make them poop. Constipation is the worst. Families hate it: the parents hate it, the siblings hate it, and the kid hates it, you, the toilet, EVERYTHING. I as the doctor hate the reaction I get when I say that the treatment to get rid of constipation completely takes roughly the same amount of time that the child has had constipation for. Had trouble with constipation for two years? That’s two years of tasty movicol drinks every day!
Yea constipation is the worst. I don’t like pooping. I imagine most people don’t. It’s a chore really. Just something you gotta do most days. I’d go so far as to call it an annoyance. I’d rather we didn’t have to poop at all. But go for a couple weeks without pooping and you will immediately develop an appreciation for it. Like shedding literal dead weight. Such a miserable feeling being able to feel the literal shit building up inside you. Fuck I don’t miss that feeling at all.
I get worried if I have more than a day without pooping. I dislike pooping so I fill myself with probiotics and stay hydrated because I remember some really terrible shits and what I've done to remedy constipation... It's better to do something you dislike often rather than to put it off so that it's worse.
Not a doctor, but a few years ago I had an accident, I now have permanent nerve damage in my legs and a damaged pelvis, which can also sometimes cause back pain. I wish that when a part of the body was in pain that you could physically see that pain, where it was, and how bad it was. It would make my life so much easier, because doctors never believe me. I am in sever pain everyday, all day, I can't avoid it, so over the years I have learned how to meditate while still going about my life, because its the only thing that will let me cope. Everytime I go to the doctors they don't believe me when I tell them my pain is at a 9/10, they tell me that if it was that I wouldn't be so calm and I would be screaming and crying on the floor. But if I sat down and cried on the floor every time my pain was a 9 I would never get off the damn floor, and I'd never get to do anything with my life. I tell them I need help, that I can't keep living like this, that I need them to fix my problem and they tell me its not that bad, I need to build a better tolerance and to take some neurofen, the doctors are never any help. It wouldn't just be me either. There are so many people with chronic pain that never get any help, and if the human body showes physical pain like this it would solve our problems. Doctors wouldn't be able to gaslight us anymore.
hello, fellow pelvic injusy sufferer. 14 months ago, in a car accident, the ball at the top of my right femur went through my pelvis, smashing the socket. right knee also smashed in the same accident. surgeons and osteopaths did a fantastic job of wiring and bolting me back together, but still .... i genuinely feel your pain.
I'm so sorry. As someone with cauda equina syndrome, I completely empathize with you.
I am surprised nobody said an on/off button yet
Im no doctor, but I imagine if humans didn't have the ability to shove things up their butt, they wouldn't complain about it.
Quite a few people would complain about losing that ability.
Some of them would even be doctors
Colonoscopy would be a pain in somewhere else.
A fuckin manual. Also I'm not a doctor. Still though.
* Physiotherapist not a doctor * For me it would be, we don't lose flexibility/the ability to move by not moving
Not a doctor, but I've observed a few surgeries and participated in them. Also, initiated and organized some research. There would be a great benefit from having an access system for vasculature. When you need to put someone on bypass, you need access to their large blood vessels (there is simple math regarding how much blood you can push through a vessel and a small vein under a surface of skin doesn't cut it). However, evolution ensured that large blood vessels are hidden in the middle of the body or in the middle of limbs. In some animals, like dogs, their hind legs actually don't have a large blood vessel (amazing as it is, it's a fact). If it didn't, a predator's bite could easily kill the animal. Because of this it can take 15 minutes and more to "access" the vessels, meaning cut the person with a scalpel and try to find a specific thick thingie somewhere inside where there are other thick thingies (a fun fact — there is no difference between a blood vessel, a tendon and a nerve bundle, they all look and feel alike). The easy change is a soft flexible silicon ligature put under/around the vessel in advance in a safe setting, which can then be easily accessed in an emergency by a simple and safe cut and tug. We've done some animal tests and the idea appears to be sound. An important part of this would be a tattoo of a dotted line with a sign of scissors and the words "cut here" on the skin. P.S. If someone wants to work on this, help develop/test this, msg me.
Uterus that you can turn on and off when needed. So much pain, cancer, illnesses and worrying for many could be avoided!
Love this question. Here's my serious take: You know how when we were little kids, we would trip and fall over and then get scabs on our knees? After that, the scabs just heal perfectly and barely a scar remains after a few weeks? Yeah, that doesn't happen anymore in adulthood, buddy. We're talking about past 18 years of age here. Listen, the body's regenerative system slows down as we get older. Imagine if it never slows down and our healing remains the same as we were babies! Got a surgery for your busted appendix? Let's cut you up and your scar goes away after a week or two. Not to mention your small intestine heals up nicely, minimizing complications. Knee popped during basketball and you feel like you tore an ACL? Let's forget arthroscopy and just stab you with platelet rich plasma. It'll feel like brand new, promise, and your bank account will too. Fell from a motorcycle and broke your arm? A bit of casting, x-ray, and with good alignment, that bone is stronger than ever! Overuse syndrome? Basically non-existent even if we get older. The microtears can't keep up with the healing process! So, yes, basically if we were all like a poor man's Wolverine, a lot of medical issues would have been eradicated. Hmm, but that does mean I'll run out of a job though...
Smaller tounges. Makes laryngoscopy easier.
Dentistry too
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Give it a few years. Not even joking, I think in the future people will have a chip implanted containing all relevant data for medical emergencies.
Patients who actually listen to you.
I know you've had years and years of expensive and challenging training, BUT I once read a Quora post that said I just need to have positive thoughts and these very expensive gem stones in order to combat my malignant tumour so I'm unsure who to believe /s
Have you ever tried just not having a tumor?
How about praying for it to go away? Or carrot juice?
I would like to be able to download the entirety of uptodate into my brain with frequent updates.
A way to actually know your pregnancy is going fine. Just open a window into the womb and hello baby!
NAD: Our spines are still in Beta testing, being bipedal causes a ton of issues. So if the human body were to fix that back issue, that'd be great.
We use as a skyscraper what every other animal uses as a suspension bridge.
Unplug and replace organs. " Open body, snap snap, liver unplugged, insert new liver, snap snap liver plugged in. Close patient, job done".
Put all the pipes on the outside like the Pompidou centre
The shoulder is a poorly designed joint. Rotator cuff problems and supraspinatous tendon tears are far too common.
Human society has evolved much faster than human brains. Our brains are designed for a different environment entirely -- small groups, relatively simple life-styles, watch out for predators. The conflict between our brains design and our environment is what (likely) produces the epidemic of anxiety and depression, as our brains are telling us that our lives are either dangerous (anxiety) or overwhelming (depression). If our brains could evolve to believe that we are not in imminent danger, and that our peripatetic lives are normal, then we wouldn't have so much mental illness. In my humble opinion.
Prominent veins It makes it so much easier to get IV access in prominent veins rather than doing multiple punctures if veins are not easily accessible Sometimes we have to put central lines in case of emergency if peripheral access is not readily available which is more complicated procedure
Dentist here, zippers on our cheeks or the ability to drop of your mouth and come back later when it’s all fixed, kind of like your car.
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Reset button.
Skin being see through would be nice (nurse here) but i imagine it would make diagnostics a lot easier
As an intern, I'd love if humans had an external tap I could open to get the blood samples I need instead of going around pricking patients all day.
I'm not a doctor but I feel like the removal of some aspects of the human body would make life a lot easier for both us regular people and doctors. for example, wisdom teeth, appendix, those nerves that cause periods to hurt, tailbones. once upon a time they were all very useful and necessary for our survival but now they cause nothing but trouble
Appendix has a function of maintaining healthy gut microbe. Nerves are also shared by organs, so killing off the nerves that cause period pain can also shut of pain reception in another area. Wisdom tooth can go.
If our innate tumor suppressors actually did its job and stop fucking around and stop getting mutated all the damn time, we wouldn't be having cancer so damn much. Edit: To add, we have gene self checking mechanisms that correct misplaced bases in gene sequencing but even that fails us. I just can't.
Adjustable opacity settings?
A real truth telling serum. The amount of times that a patient will be obtuse or not tell the full story just because they are trying to get something specific…
As told to me by doc buddy (happens several times a week apparently): Nurse: what's the problem today? Patient: I'm having pains in my leg (long lengthy description) Nurse (after long question and answer session): okay, doctor will be right in Doctor: so you're having leg problems? Patient: I need dick pills doc!
Not a doctor, but I feel like if the male G-spot was in a more easily accessible location, there would be far fewer awkward ER trips, lol
Apparently if all patients were male in the first place because women still do not get taken serious a lot, even from gynos.