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Emily Cooke

Our 10 oddest medical case stories from 2023

Close up on legs of medic wearing scrubs and walking with a gurney along hospital corridor.

Doctors can see thousands of patients a year, and sometimes, they encounter cases that completely flabbergast them or else turn out to be incredibly rare. When this happens, they'll often chronicle the cases in medical journals so that clinicians and members of the public alike can learn about the intriguing complexities of the human body, as well as keep an eye out for these often lesser-known conditions.

Here are some of the oddest medical cases that we covered in 2023.

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