Agraphia Medical Tragicomedy

Medical Fun Facts

• Chlamydia, though traditionally sexually acquired, can spread on flies- to your eye.
• Plague (aka the Black Death) obstructs the gut of the flea biting you, causing it to literally throw up plague into your open wound*.
• Eating unpasteurized "health foods" is one of the easiest ways to catch a plethora of horrendously unpleasant bacterial infections.
• Medicalese: Malingering.
  Lay definition: faking it.
• Up to 50% of ectopic pregnancies can be directly traced to Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) secondary to chlamydia or gonorrhea infection.
• Ladies, the vast majority of UTI's are from wiping "the wrong way" or not washing after sex.
• Endometriosis is displaced uterine tissue that bleeds too. It may show up in the lung.
• Medicalese: Non-compliant.
  Lay definition: stubborn.
• Up to 90% of men older than 70 have BPH & trouble peeing.
• Diabetic mothers tend to have big babies.
• Sickle Cell disease protects against malaria.
• Lung cancer from smoking is more common than either prostate cancer in men or cervical cancer in women.
• While hemophiliacs are "bleeders", the type of bleeding that you're probably thinking about is actually associated with a different disease (Von Willebrand's).

*gross. just... gross.