Star Trek Sticky NotesYou are a highly logical being. You know that insufficient facts invite danger. You have obstacles to overcome, but you remove those obstacles with strength and good organizational skills. With comp...

(Image credit: Flickr user MR38.)Nominative determ...  ...dson Urethroplasty" co-authored by two Australian doctors named Splatt and Weedon as one of the inspiration...  ...n any occupation he chose. Historical Bonus: Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss may seem like a redundancy, but his...  ...like a redundancy, but his...

It seems like just yesterday when we found out the Lunarbaboon family was going to welcome another child, and now she's old enough to have role models. I can attest to the importance of role models for little girls. Ever...

The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research, now in all-pdf form. Get a subscription now for only $25 a year!(Image credit: Artur Bergman)compiled by Ernest Ersatz, Improbable Research staffMedical...

Wouldn’t you love to go see Dr. Lamar, who heals boo-boos with nom-noms? This billboard in Milwaukee grabbed a lot of attention. The website on the billboard is actually for the company that rents out billboards. T...

Because medical care requires an inordinate amount...  ...al care requires an inordinate amount of trust in doctors , who have an inordinate amount of power over thei...  ...dical ethics. Although it is blessedly rare, some doctors pay no heed to the oath, and indeed use their tra...  ...rrifying, purposes. One...

There is a myth that medical science did not progr...  ...befriended.While many of the cures that medieval doctors came up were terrifying and often useless, it was...

In 1873, Harvard professor Edward Clarke published...  ...f those who did was Mary Putnam Jacobi, a medical doctor and an extraordinary woman of her time. Jacobi ea...

One doctor overwintering in Antarctica is responsible for th...  ...ajor emergency -and the patient could even be the doctor .It’s a hypochondriac’s worst nightmar...  ...of legendary crises.Some countries require their doctors undergo an appendectomy to ward off the...

Time travelers come in all shapes and sizes, and f...  ...om many different walks of life.Sometimes they're doctors , or scientists, or intrepid adventurers, and some...  ...hey spend their youth playing a different kind of doctor :Tommy Who by SilverBaXBut unless you're born to t...  ...ce in thirteen lifetimes...