I have no idea how these people got these things wedged into themselves

January 30, 2015 10:38 AM

amazing radiology images: how sharing them is changing medicine (radiopaedia.org) (radiopedia tumblr)
posted by and they trembled before her fury (20 comments total)

Oh, this is super cool! I like the mixture of "this is what this weird injury/swallowing something you oughtn't have looks like" and "this is what an interesting developmental abnormality looks like."
posted by sciatrix at 10:51 AM on January 30, 2015

and then you google some of the diseases, and wish you hadn't ...
posted by k5.user at 10:53 AM on January 30, 2015

I really hope Penile Rupture Aubergine guy is OK.
posted by colie at 10:57 AM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]

There is a fine line between uploading images of other people for discourse and discussion and doing it for the LuLZ.
posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 10:57 AM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]

Figure1 should get a nod - great app that is promoting sharing of all kinds of imagery. It is like Instagram for medical stuff.
posted by casconed at 10:59 AM on January 30, 2015 [2 favorites]

Next time I'm feeling sorry for myself, I'm going to think about that Cherubism X-ray.
Christ.
posted by bonobothegreat at 10:59 AM on January 30, 2015 [3 favorites]

I really hope Penile Rupture Aubergine guy is OK.

Yeah I winced and grimaced at a bunch of these but just reading the words "penile rupture" really got me. If that hadn't been the last one, I would've been done at that point anyway.

(go figure since a lot of the other pics are way more terrifying than penile rupture... which is.. saying something)
posted by unknownmosquito at 10:59 AM on January 30, 2015

We must hope that Penile Rupture Aubergine Guy was doing something utterly debauched when disaster struck, rather than, say, driving a fork lift truck at work or something.
posted by colie at 11:04 AM on January 30, 2015

Figure1 should get a nod - great app that is promoting sharing of all kinds of imagery. It is like Instagram for medical stuff.

We talked about Figure1 here.
posted by zamboni at 11:19 AM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]

Apparently my girlfriend had a rugby teammate when she was in college, who had accidentally caused penile rupture in two of her previous boyfriends. Accordingly, she was referred to by her team as "(name redacted) the dickbreaker." It was on her jersey and everything.
posted by Mitrovarr at 11:28 AM on January 30, 2015 [10 favorites]

There is something disturbingly eponysterical about "I have no idea how these people got these things wedged into themselves and they trembled before her fury."
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 12:37 PM on January 30, 2015 [2 favorites]

SpongeBob SquarePants ... you can see him so clearly because he's metallic and metal ridges outline his features, even his freckles.

Freckles? He's a sponge, doctor.
posted by Sys Rq at 1:00 PM on January 30, 2015 [2 favorites]

Apparently none of the people on that website have ever heard of HIPAA.
posted by charlie don't surf at 2:06 PM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]

Well, Charlie, for starters they aren't in the US! Amazing!

Also, in the article, they go through the steps they take to ensure confidentiality and privacy concerns are addressed.
posted by geek anachronism at 2:19 PM on January 30, 2015 [3 favorites]

Basically this person was just fishing and stuck the hook onto their own ear accidentally, and the prawn is still attached to the hook.

And the prawn was still attached to the hook. The reasons I'm not ok with this image are many and varied but most specifically include La muñeca menor/The Youngest Doll, a fabulously horrific short story by Ferré.
posted by librarylis at 3:10 PM on January 30, 2015

Radiologists have always had a clamp on reading Xrays, CTs, MRIs, etc.

I'm all for sites like this with a higher level of medical information--and fewer of the US-type sites that just give some kind of 3rd grade level information and then say "see your doctor." Because...HIPAA, confidentiality, speciality, etc.
posted by CrowGoat at 5:05 PM on January 30, 2015

If you're into this kind of thing, the Radiological Society just their 100th anniversary, and sponsored an image contest.

Me, I'm more a fan of MRI disasters. The magnet is always on, people!
posted by Bron at 5:35 PM on January 30, 2015 [3 favorites]

Penile Rupture

I will never forget being woken up at 5 am by my roomate walking into my room, waking up me and my girlfriend, whipping out his penis, and asking "do you think I need to go to the hospital?"
posted by 256 at 7:29 PM on January 30, 2015

The CT scan of the swallowed amphetamines was surreal.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 3:44 AM on January 31, 2015

This thread is sadly incomplete if it ain't got a link to this internet classic.
posted by Trinity-Gehenna at 1:57 PM on January 31, 2015