The Man Who Turned into a Tree
Like a prime-time version of Oliver Sacks‘ elegant medical books, the television show Medical Mysteries has brought some of the world’s strangest diseases straight into the American living room.
The television show spawned a new book. Hyperion released “Medical Mysteries: From the Bizarre to the Deadly…the Cases That Have Baffled Doctors,” and ABC News took a look inside the book by Ann Reynolds and Kenneth Wapner, picking out some strange illnesses.
Here’s an excerpt: “The show struck a chord with television audiences, I think, because we all live in bodies — we’re all wondering if that little ache or that strange sound in our neck could ‘be something.’ … Did you know that some people are born with their internal organs backwards inside them? Or that a particular form of paralysis strikes only first-time surfers? And another can be set off by eating a pizza? And what kind of medical problem would make a man look as though he was turning into a tree, with ‘roots’ and ‘bark?’”
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