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July 18, 2010 10:31 PM Subscribe
DIY medicine on YouTube: A G&M article with plenty of links that I could click on.
Doug Southern would have preferred to see a doctor, but bad timing meant he was without health insurance. He was laid off from his job a short while before a three-year-old baseball-sized cyst on his back became infected.
When his brother-in-law, a family practitioner, and his sister came to visit him in Tuscaloosa, Ala., he decided to put down a towel and pillow on his kitchen floor and turn it into a makeshift operating room so his cyst could be taken out “Alabama style.”
The graphic, seven-minute YouTube video is punctuated with squeals of delight and revulsion from Mr. Southern’s sister (the camerawoman) and commentary from the doctor (“Now you see how that’s a little bit cheesy there? That’s some of the cyst stuff comin’ out.”).
“I would never recommend anyone doing this at home,” Mr. Southern, 41, says. “I obviously did it, but the situation I was in kind of allowed me the ability to have that done and it be controlled and somewhat safe.”
His video was posted mostly for entertainment (“You don’t want to see it, but once you see it happening, you can’t take your eyes off it,” he says) but it was uploaded to the “Education” category of YouTube.
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A G&M article with plenty of links that I could not click on.
posted by KokuRyu at 10:33 PM on July 18, 2010 [1 favorite]