Ep. 292: Abdominal Surgery Removes Mass With A Creature Inside + We Need To Talk About Breakdancing Overuse Syndrome
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Ep. 292: Abdominal Surgery Removes Mass With A Creature Inside + We Need To Talk About Breakdancing Overuse Syndrome

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 10, 202639 min
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Hey, welcome back to Well That's Interesting. The I Don't Like the Sound of These edition today is episode 292. Abdominal surgery removes mass with a creature inside and we need to talk about breakdancer overuse syndrome.

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My friends, it has been a long minute since you and I took a leisurely stroll down old Medical Oddities Lane and I refuse to let another minute go by without taking that constitutional. The last time you and I were arm in arm here was back in May during episode 278 where we entered the doors of the Royal Preston Hotel in the UK and met a 46-year-old man complaining

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of having a chronic cough for the past 16 years. That annoyance was coupled by the occasional bout of pneumonia and bronchiectasis, which is a fancy way of saying his airways, or bronchi, were nice and thick, with inflammation and infection.

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