I am soo excited for the Warped Tour. I publicized the Music Saves Lives blood donation incentives on the Freakonomics blog (http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2007/07/06/the-freakest-links-smaller-homes-free-burritos-and-the-price-of-death-edition/).
In other news, yesterday I saw situs inversus up close and personal. Situs inversus is a very rare condition (less than 1 in 10,000 people are afflicted with it) in which the internal organs swap sides and mirror "normal" setup of the organs. There are no real complications with the disease, except that it makes diagnosis harder when doctors don't realize one has the disease (appendicitis on the left?). It can also make organ transplantation more difficult because the surgeon has to rechannel the bodies major arteries and veins.
Sure, the situs inversus I saw was in a crackwhore whose lungs were as black as a long-time coal miner's, but it was really cool that I had seen it when many practicing physicians never have. This is just one more thing to add to my article I'm writing for my college's newspaper.
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