Sunday, 12 September 2010

A startling case of hearing voices diagnosing cancer

A difficult case: Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices
http://www.bmj.com/content/315/7123/1685.extract
Ikechukwu Obialo Azuonye
BMJ 1997; 315 : 1685 (Published 20 December 1997)

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A previously healthy woman began to hear hallucinatory voices telling
her to have a brain scan for a tumour. The prediction was true; she was
operated on and had an uneventful recovery.
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Yeah. That's pretty cool huh?

It's n noteworthy the author, a consultant psychiatrist, is black. Many
people from other cultures wouldn't have attempted to get this case
study published in the British Medical Journal.

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