Blog of Josh Hall

What do single people with no friends do when they have to get an operation? How about people from out of town, either as exchange students or just long term work assignments? How do you get yourself to and from a place while you’re under anesthesia? When I had to get foot surgery, It required […]

Hospitals are businesses. They’re not just there to make you feel better.  They are run like businesses.  They worry about low overhead and getting customers in and out as quickly as possible.  Are you aware that 1 in 3 births that occur in a hospital result in a Cesarian section?  That’s a 50% increase since […]

http://gawker.com/5750105/spray+on-skin-a-demonstration We have skin in a can now.  some guy gets 2nd degree burns on a Friday, they scrape some stem cells from him, spray them on his wounds, and he’s all healed up with barely any scars by Monday.  It’s like the coolest use of an air spray gun.  Reminds me of an old […]

I have no idea why the listed the top one first, but it’s still a pretty crazy list.  Some of these conditions are borderline super-powers if you ask me.  I wonder where we could be if we could extract these peoples’ genes…  http://www.oddee.com/item_96473.aspx