While not everyone is cut out to be a doctor, millions of people around the world are happy to live vicariously through the lives of doctors and nurses by binge-watching medical dramas. “Grey’s Anatomy” has clocked over 3.2 billion hours of streaming time globally. Let’s not forget the popularity of “House”, “ER”, “Scrubs”, and “The Good Doctor”.
Viewers stay hooked, even if some parts make them want to look away. Watching medical science in action can be intriguing, and at the same time, disturbing. If you get sucked into hospital shows and are fascinated with the workings of the human body, keep scrolling.
Bored Panda has scoured the depths of the internet to compile a list of really interesting photos of the human body. From extreme close-ups of skin, to the effects of chemotherapy on nails, burns, bruises and even eye transplants... There's something here for anyone who has a morbid fascination with health and healing.
#1 Here Are My Removed & Genetically Modified White Blood Cells, About To Be Put Back In To Hopefully Cure My Cancer! This Is T-Cell Immunotherapy!
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#2 I Had A Brain Tumor Removed, And Now I’m A Bit Absent Minded
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#3 Uncle's Eye Healed After Corneal Transplant Surgery
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Medical dramas have become hugely popular over the years. Maybe we like watching someone else’s pain and suffering. Maybe we see doctors as superheroes. Or maybe we get a kick out of witnessing chaotic scenes play out in an operating theater. At least one doctor believes it’s because we have a morbid fascination with nature.
In particular, “our own amazing bodies, and all the things that can go wrong, but that are thankfully not going wrong for us in the moment" said Dr. Marian Rissenberg during an interview with Bustle. Rissenberg is a New York-based clinical neuropsychologist.
"I imagine that on some subconscious level, we cannot help but be intrigued at seeing something so socially unacceptable and morbid," said emergency medicine technician, Dr. Sonia Shah.
#4 My Invisible (White) Tattoo Is Currently Visible
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#5 My Injury Healed In A Nearly Perfect Heart Shape
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#6 My Finger After Getting It Stuck In A Car Door
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#7 Mild Gore. Brother's Girlfriend's Transparent Skin Graft. F**k Cancer
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#8 The Seventeen Stitches Left In My Eye While It Recovers From Corneal Transplant Surgery
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#9 Before And After I Wear My Fake Eye
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#10 The Bruising I Had From A Recent Wisdom Tooth Extraction
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#11 Had A Nail Run Through My Eye. They Stretched My Pupil Over The Hole And Stitched It Up
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#12 Bruise Progression
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#13 Burnt My Hand With An Iron At Age 1.5 This Is My Hand Almost 14 Years Later. Yes That Is Hair On My Hand
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#14 My Scar Doesn’t Get Dirty When I’m At Work
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#15 The Difference Three Months Of Hardcore Chemotherapy Makes!
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#16 My Cornea Transplant Nearly 4 Months After Surgery
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#17 Burn Mark On Hand Reveiles Fresh Tattoo
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#18 My Wife's Hair Color Naturally Changing After Childbirth
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#19 How Chemotherapy Affect Nails
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#20 Something Interesting : I Got An Eye Injury 6 Years Ago That Left My Right Eye Blue Now Instead Of The Original Brown!
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#21 You Can See Where My Hair Started Growing Out White Instead Of My Natural Colour
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#22 I Got Stung By A Jellyfish 20 Years Ago That’s Effected The Cells In My Skin Meaning It Can’t Change Colour Due To Temperature
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#23 Brain Surgery Scars On The Top Of My Head
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#24 Strands Of DNA Precipitated By Ethanol. About 3 Trillion Of Them
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#25 Two Weeks Ago I Cleanly Sliced Off The Tip Of My Finger With A Mandoline. Today, You Can See Each Layer Of Skin Healing Separately
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#26 Breast Milk Color Difference 3 Days Postpartum vs. 8 Weeks Postpartum
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#27 'stretched' Freckles On My Surgery Scar
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#28 My Nails Pushing The Chemo Out Of My Fingertips
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#29 My Eye Is Gradually Losing Its Color
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#30 Cervical Fusion Surgery Scar 2 Weeks Post Op
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#31 When My Son Was Born He Had A Knot In His Umbilical Cord
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#32 My XL Wrist Vein
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#33 Blood From A Vein(Top Bag) And Blood From An Artery(Bottom Bag). Your Blood Is Just Darker With No Oxygen In It, Not Blue
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#34 My Scab From An Oil Burn Took Part Of My Tattoo Along With It
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#35 A Patch Of My Hair Fell Out 1.5 Years Ago And Has Grown Back Curly
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#36 Less Than One Second Of 3,000°f Flame To A Finger Nail
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#37 The Scar On My Hand, From A Skin Transplant From My Upper Arm, Gets More Tanned Than The Rest
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#38 The Bruise On My Arm Healing After K-Tape
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#39 Only My Right Arm Is Allergic To My Wristwatch
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#40 Scar From Carotid Artery Surgery
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#41 Dealing With A Lung Infection And Coughed Up A Bronchial Cast - A Mucosal Plug That Retained The Shape Of The Bronchioles It Came Out Of
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#42 Thought You All Might Appreciate My Uncommon Stitches
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#43 My Flesh-Eating Spider Bite Turned Into A Heart-Shaped Scar
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#44 My Skin Was So Dry It Made Patterns
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#45 I Got A Piece Of Metal Stuck In My Eye And It Left A Rust Ring After It Fell Out
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#46 My Right Thumb Which Was Under A Cast For A Month Has Become Much Hairier Than My Left
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#47 Muscle Atrophy In My Right Leg Compared To Left After Tibial Plateau Fracture Surgery
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#48 Left: Blister From A Candle Burn. Right: Blister From Frostbite 2 Days Later
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#49 I Killed A Patch Of Nerves In My Cheek As A Child And Have Had A Lopsided Smile And One Dimple Ever Since
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#50 Had Vitrectomy Surgery 3 Years Ago, And One Pupil Is Always Bigger Than The Other Now
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#51 My Allergy Skin Test From Today
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#52 Starting To Lose The First Joint Crease On My Ring Finger After Being Splinted For 7 Weeks
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#53 I’m Wearing A Thermal Nail Polish And I Can See How Much Hotter My Infected Ring Finger Is
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#54 Engine Grease Revealing Where I Prick My Fingers To Check Blood Sugar
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#55 My Finger After I Finally Got A Ring Off That’s Been On For 2 1/2 Years Straight
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#56 6 Lines On My Fingernails, One For Each Chemo Session I Had Recently
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#57 I Was Stabbed In The Eye With A Hanger 11 Years Ago
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#58 This Patch Of White Hair We Somehow Just Found On My Head Today At Only 20 Years Old
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#59 A Tattoo Under A Macro Lens
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#60 Nail Damage From Chemotherapy
Thought this was interesting - you can see the ridge on my nails where the chemo damage starts. I finished chemo in June, so this is almost two months of healthy growth. The ring finger nail is only attached by the small patch at the bottom - the rest is just free. The bruising (?) on the middle nail is mildly uncomfortable and I expect that's the next nail to detach. Interestingly, my thumb nail escaped largely unharmed, except for one large ridge!
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#61 The Difference My Prosthetic Eye Makes
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#62 Scar Changed How My Thumb Nail Grows
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#63 Swollen Left Hand After Insect Bite, Compared To 'Normal' Right Hand
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#64 My Histamine Response After Spider Bite On Eyelid
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#65 My Husband Got Scalp Edema From A Severe Sunburn
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#66 A Chunk Of My Red Hair From When I Was 16 Compared To My Faded With Time Hair Now That I'm 27
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#67 The Shape Of My Tongue Due To Wearing Retainers At Night
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#68 Neurologist Let Me Take A Picture Of My Spinal Fluid After My Lumbar Puncture Procedure
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#69 The Bruises On My Arm After Nurses Couldn’t Find A Vein
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#70 My Ears Before, And After Getting Them Reconstructed (Almost 3 Years Healed)
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#71 My Roommate Was Born With 12 Fingers And Had Them Amputated As An Infant
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#72 Growing My Hair Out After Radiotherapy. Part Of It Is Ginger, Part Of It Is Brown
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#73 My Scars Don't Seem To Sweat
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#74 Baby's Natural Ombré. Born With Dark Brown Hair That's Grown In Blonde Since Birth
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#75 My Fingers Get Very Swollen When I Exercise
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#76 Severed A Nerve In My Index Finger... Half My Finger Can No Longer Prune
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#77 In Case You Have Not Seen What A Clump Of DNA Looks Like
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#78 An Octopus Bite Wound
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#79 This Beard Hair Used To Be Gray Before I Started Taking Medication For My Anxiety
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#80 I Have A Tube With My Brain Fluid In It
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#81 I Used A Microscope On My Shaved Head Realized My Hairs Grow In Pairs
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#82 This Plasma Separated From My Blood Over A 3 Hour Sitting
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#83 When I Drink Alcohol My Scar On My Thumb Lights Up Like A Neon Light Or Lightsaber
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#84 Old Injury On Hand Now Gets Dirty Or Stays Clean Opposite To The Rest Of The Hand
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#85 The Time I Got Gnarly Hives All Over My Body
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#86 24 Hours After Being Stung By A Yellow Jacket On My Middle Upper Knuckle
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#87 My Friends Medication Makes Some Of His Hair Grow White While He's Taking It, So His Hair Becomes Stripey Over Time As He Goes On And Off The Medication
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#88 So I Recently Went On A Color Run And My Scar Repelled The Dye
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#89 I Have A Tiny Vial Of My Own Dehydrated Blood
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#90 Size Difference In My Legs After An Injury And Putting No Weight On One For 3 Months
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#91 I Got A Mosquito Bite Next To A Tattoo And It Made The Letters Swell Up Into 3D
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#92 A Scab That Formed Over A Fresh Tattoo
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#93 I Went Four Wheeling And The Dirt Stuck To My Leg Everywhere But Where I Have Scars
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#94 This Burn On My Finger Doesn’t Get Dirty
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#95 The Amount Of Atrophy My Left Leg Had After A Cast For Six Weeks
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#96 My Pinky Toe Nails Grow Completely Vertical
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#97 The Very Detailed Imprint On My Leg Left By My Hand While I Was Sleeping
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#98 Apparently You Can't Get Bruises On Old Scars
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#99 My Friend Broke His Arm And The Surgery Misaligned His Tattoo
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#100 My Seasonal Allergies Manifest As Itchy Bumps On My Tattoo, But Only On The Red And Black Side
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#101 The Way The Color Is Coming Back On My Burn Wound
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#102 Accidentally Got This Sick Burn From My Space Heater
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#103 The Hair On The Pale Part Of My Watch Tan Is Black, But The Hair On The Tan Part Of My Arm Is White
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#104 Sand Doesn't Stick On Scars
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#105 This Patch On My Skin Never Tans/Burns. I’ve Had It Since I Was Born!
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#106 What Blood Looks Like With The Red Blood Cells Removed
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#107 I've Had A Splinter Stuck In My Finger For About 4 Years
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#108 The Imprint Of My Mother's Thumb Burned Into My Forearm
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#109 Poison Ivy Doesn't Cause A Rash On Scar Tissue
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#110 This Is My Girlfriend 4 Hours After Giving Birth
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#111 This Is My Atrophied Foot After A Soccer Injury That Shredded My Nerves Apart
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#112 The Scar On My Arm Doesn’t Get Dirty
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#113 My Scar Doesnt Sweat Anymore So Dirt Doesnt Stick To It
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#114 The Bruise On My Knee Traveled “Up” Because I’ve Had To Elevate My Leg
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#115 I Got Bit By A Mosquito Twice And A Line Joining Them Formed
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#116 Surgery After My My Radius Fracture Surgery. They Didn't Line My Tattoo Up
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#117 My Toenail Grew In Extra Thick During My Pregnancy Then Abruptly Stopped Growing Thick Once I Gave Birth To My Son
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#118 Broke My Arm - 1 Week Later Fingernails No Longer Grow At Same Rate
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#119 Weird Mosquito Bite
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#120 I Have Not Worn A Watch For Over 10 Years, But You Can Still See Where It Used To Be On My Arm
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