Why are some of us so compelled to stare at unsettling photos and videos of things that we’d prefer not to see in real life? A bloody scene from Grey’s Anatomy, or a putrid peek at Dr. Pimple Popper squeezing pus-filled blemishes. It’s like we can’t help ourselves, even if our stomachs are churning.
Some scientists believe it’s because viewing such content from a safe distance allows us to be both disgusted and curious at the same time. Both are evolutionary feelings. And both can protect us. But more on that later…
First, we’re going to test your ability hold down your breakfast while scrolling through some rather unsettling medical images. From a really creepy-looking medical dummy, to an x-ray of a brain after a piece has been removed… Bored Panda has put together a list of “look away but not quite yet” medical photographs shared by people online. Each image tells its own story, and all provide a window into a world that we wouldn’t ordinarily see.
#1 An Artist Is Doing A Really Cool Thing By Painting Baby’s Medical Helmets
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#2 My Adhd Medication Came With A Fidget Toy
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#3 This Is The First Complete Nervous System Ever Dissected – 1887
Her name is Harriett and she was a maid employed at drexel university college of medicine, now the medical college of pennsylvania. She wished to dedicate her body to science.
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#4 Ducklings Being Used In Medical Therapy, 1956
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#5 I Had A Brain Tumor Removed, And Now I’m A Bit Absent Minded
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#6 These Medical Cloves Designed For Medical Emergency Response
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#7 Medical Chest I Found In My Grandfathers Attic
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#8 This White “Soap” Is The First 3D Printed Bionic Pancreas
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#9 Perfectly Lined Up Sternotomy Sealing, The Surgeon Is Amazing
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#10 An Identity Thief Stole The Identity Of A Surgeon And While Aboard A Navy Destroyer Was Tasked With Performing Several Life Saving Surgeries
He proceeded to memorize a medical textbook just before hand and all the patients survived.
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#11 Uncle’s Eye Healed After Corneal Transplant Surgery
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#12 A Doctor’s Office On My Delivery Route Has A Real Ww1 Medical Kit Framed Up On The Wall
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#13 X-Ray Of A Hand With Advanced Rheumatoid Arthiritis
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#14 The Amount Of Medication I Have To Take In A Week After A Kidney Transplant
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#15 Testing Davinci Surgical Robot On Operation Game
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#16 This Device To Help Medical Professionals Find Veins. The Veinviewer
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#17 Before & After A Total Spinal Fusion
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#18 Obsidian Knives Made From A Type Of Volcanic Glass Are So Sharp They Cut On A Cellular Level
Due to this, when used in the medical field, incisions made with the blade heal faster with less scarring. They have been used as tools since the stone age.
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#19 In My Head, The Screws From My Spinal Fusion Surgery Looked A Lot Smaller
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#20 This Condition Is Called Mirror Hand Syndrome, Less Than 100 Cases Have Ever Been Diagnosed And The Cause Is Still Unknown
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#21 The Monthly Dosage Of Medication Necessary For My Survival
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#22 This Is A UV Light Used In Hospitals To Decontaminate Rooms That Were Occupied By Patients With Particularly Resistant Bacteria Or Bugs
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#23 There’s A Tooth In My Chin
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#24 Finger Infected. Thermal Imaging Confirms
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#25 Asteroid Hyalosis Is A Medical Condition In Which The Person’s Eyes Look Like The Universe
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#26 The Body Of A Gymnast While Preforming A Trick
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#27 Atlantic Horseshoe Crabs Have A Milky Blue Blood. Each Year, Millions Of Crabs Are Captured, Bled And Released
The blood is used in almost all pharmaceutical vaccines, one of which being a Covid-19 vaccine.
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#28 Strands Of DNA Precipitated By Ethanol. About 3 Trillion Of Them
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#29 Patient Got Bit By A Stray Dog, And This Is His Rabies Vaccine And Immune Globulin Set Up
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#30 My Dog And I Are Taking The Same Medication
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#31 Doctors Find 27 Contact Lenses Stuck In 67-Year-Old Woman’s Eye
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#32 My Sister Teaches Nursing Students How To Do Medical Procedures. Here Is One Of Their Practice Dummies
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#33 Went To Get A Scan For Practicing Medical Students (I Was A Volunteer Modle)
Didn’t Expect To See I Have A Condition Where My Hearts Artery And Vein Has Been Flipped To The Opposite Sides Of Each Other At Birth, Which Is Apparently Rare.
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#34 Scleroderma Hands Manifestations
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#35 Just Cleanly Removed The Entire Nerve From My Patient’s Tooth (On Purpose)
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#36 Triphalangeal Thumb (TPT) Is A Congenitalmalformation Where The Thumb Has Three Phalanges Instead Of Two
The extra phalangeal bone can vary in size from that of a small pebble to a size comparable to the phalanges in non-thumb digits.
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#37 My Cat’s Medication Says Not To Drink Alcohol With It
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#38 This Medication Causes Birth Defects And They Don’t Want You To Forget
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#39 One Of Four Intact Human Nervous Systems, This Was Dissected By 2 Medical Students In 1925 — And It Took Them Over 1,500 Hours To Remove
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#40 Bungee Cord To The Eye Caused Man’s Iris To Collapse Into Multiple Deformed Pupils
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#41 Three Kidneys Discovered In A Man! – Medical Case
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#42 Specialist Dentist Said I Had Some Of The Longest Teeth He’s Ever Removed
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#43 WW1 Canadian Battlefield Medical Kit
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#44 An X-Ray Of A Hand With Six Fingers
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#45 Dupuytren’s Contracture Symptoms
Dupuytren contracture is a painless condition that causes one or more fingers to bend toward the palm of the hand. The affected fingers can’t straighten completely. Knots of tissue form under the skin. They eventually create a thick cord that can pull the fingers into a bent position.
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#46 Stingray Tail, Extracted From Patient After Accident, Nz
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#47 Sterile #2 Pencils In The Operating Room
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#48 My Friend’s Skin Graft After Healing
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#49 My Dissection Kit For Working On Human Cadavers In Medical School
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#50 Doctors From The Texas Heart Institute Have Performed A Surgery Implementing A Device That Left A Man Becoming The World’s First Heartless Human Leaving Him Without A Pulse Or Detectable Heart Beat
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#51 $8,500 Worth Of Medical Equipment In The Us. My Son Needs These To Walk
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#52 My Medication Is So Strictly Controlled That It Has A Battery Powered Tracking Tag
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#53 This Is A Condition Called Hyperdontia
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#54 My TPN (Nutrition Pumped Into My Heart) Has Olive Oil And Egg In It
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#55 My Father Was An Eye Doctor And Those Are The Glass Eye Prosthesis He Would Show The Patients
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#56 2 Hair Follicles Grown In Eye Caused By Limbal Dermoid
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#57 Vintage Medical Tools For Removing Kidney And Bladder Stones And The Stones That They Removed
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#58 This Medication I Take Is $6000 Per An Injection
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#59 Itemized Hospital Bill From When My Dad Was Born In 1954
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#60 The Colors Of Disposable Lab Coats Available From The Supplier My Hospital Uses
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#61 Dentists Of 1950 Starter Kit: (Actually Part Of My Antique Medical Equipment Collection)
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#62 In The United States, This Is What $14,714.49 Of Medication Looks Like
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#63 Neovascular Festoons On The Iris
A 74-year-old man with hypertension presented with vision reduced to only light perception in his right eye. A relative afferent pupillary defect was observed, and retinal examination showed an occlusion of the central retinal vein. The abnormal pupillary response was caused by retinal ischemia. A hypoperfused retina exudes angiogenic factors such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). New vessels formed on the pupil (Panels A and B show low and high magnification, respectively) and also in the angle, the aqueous drainage system that surrounds the iris. Angiogenesis in the angle can occlude the drainage pathway, causing glaucoma and the complication of a painful, sightless eye. Regression of iris neovasculature was achieved with the use of intravitreal anti-VEGF therapy and maintained with the use of scatter laser photocoagulation of the ischemic retina. The patient’s vision in the affected eye remained unchanged, and hypertension was the risk factor associated with this ocular vascular occlusion. Owing to the severity of disease at baseline, there was no visual improvement.
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#64 My Medicine Tells Me That It Doesn’t Work
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#65 To Study The Medical Effects Of Weightlessness In Space, Scientists Convinced Captain Druey P. Parks To Toss A Kitten In The Air While Cruising In His F-94c Jet At An Altitude Of 25,000 Feet
The following photo, taken in February 1958, captures the floating feline.
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