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Songziniao Hospital in Wuhan in China’s Hubei Province has gone somewhere no other hospital has gone before (at least that’s the presumption.) They’ve opened a “brothel” inside their facility. For the right amount of money you can go into the special rooms equipped with the special tool, furniture and...

I can’t think of anything worse than getting so wasted that you not only get picked up by police after they catch you being drunk and peeing in public, but you pass out in the back of the police cruiser and, unable to wake you, the cops end up...

This is a bit of a confusing scenario—should the driver be commended for doing the humane thing by trying to help the deer he hit with his car, or should he only be punished and chastised for drinking and driving?  Does his act of kindness towards the injured animal...

A pregnant Israeli woman was reportedly left with severe burns after a Cesarean operation went really, really wrong. The incident, which occurred at the Sheba Medical Centre in Tel HaShomer in 2008, was discovered during an investigation by Israel’s ministry of health. The patient was swabbed with an alcohol...

What do you get when a cat, a train driver and a closed carriage all come together at the same time? A cat-astrophic ordeal, that’s what! It is exactly what happened when a grey short-hair male cat boarded a train at Wairarapa station in New Zealand. Nothing serious about that I...

At least 66 people attended NSW emergency departments last year with injuries sustained while playing Nintendo Wii with a further 37 gamers so far this year seeking emergency assistance. Most involved injuries such as sprains and strains, but some complaints included dislocated body parts. Typically, players were hurt after being hit by the console controller. Gamers...

As if that didn’t sound horrifying enough, know this–the brawl was between the two doctors responsible for the mother-to-be and her unborn child. The site of this terrible story is the Polyclinic Hospital in Messina, on the Italian island of Sicily, where Laura Salpietro and her husband, Matteo Molonia,...

It strikes me that there are several ways to have your face re arranged. The first and most obvious would of course be plastic surgery. The second, would be to walk into a bar full or English Rugby Union supporters and openly express one’s support for the French. Or...

Something went wrong when a man went into a hospital in northern Italy for a routine unilateral orchiectomy (removal of one testicle) six years ago. A surgeon accidentally removed the 27-year-old  patient’s healthy right testicle, realized his mistake and then took out the left one as well – it...