Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Eewy Body Dementia

by Sharon Ostfeld-Johns
Annals of Internal Medicine, January 14, 2020
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This is a graphic medical essay about scabies (Norwegian type) and its effects on a medical resident's life.  It brilliantly comments on scabies, health anxiety and cyberchoindria.  One can appreciate how delusional parasitophobia can be a sequela in some people.  Fortunately, the author was not one of them.  The combination of text and drawings is a great way to tell the story.

Here is the first page:

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