Wanton Scalpel

Sometimes it is hard to differentiate between the intelligent and the insane in the scientific community. Often, they say that geniuses are usually crazy. This month we have come across…

Of all the researchers that I have written about this month in my series DOCTORS & SCIENTISTS WHO SELF EXPERIMENTED, this one is probably the one which is saddest of…

Human fascination for Robots has been evident since a long time. Even before a part human, part robot Arnold Schwarzenegger repeatedly hammed "I'll be back" in the movie Terminator, scientists…

We are obsessed with food. Whenever we visit a new place we are always curious to try the cuisine there. Of course before that we do have to post a…

Being a self-experimenter is not for the faint hearted. You have to be willing to do things which most people wouldn’t even imagine. All this just to prove oneself right…

We all have had gastritis at some point or the other. During wedding or festival season when we tend to hog on spicy, oily food. During exams or in times…

The field of surgery has changed remarkably over the years because of various advances in instruments, drugs and anesthetic agents. One of the reasons why patients can go into and…

Self-experimentation need not always been painful or gross as we have seen in the previous posts of this month under the title DOCTORS & SCIENTISTS WHO SELF- EXPERIMENTED. Sometimes these…

This month my blog is dedicated to Doctors & Scientists Who Self-Experimented. So far, we’ve come across a number of individuals who pushed the boundaries of human endurance for the…