He Took a Pregnancy Test as a Joke—but the Results Turned His Life Upside-Down

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After a diagnosis has been made, evaluating the levels of beta-HCG effectively indicates how the tumor will respond to treatment. If the patient’s beta-HCG levels were elevated prior to the operation, afterward, they should return to normal. However, that’s not always the case.

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The More You Know

  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
  • Great white sharks are so scared of killer whales that they'll avoid an area for up to a year after spotting one.
  • A Boeing 747 airliner is made of over 6,000,000 separate parts.
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