Rapunzel at Enchanted Lakes Beachfront Townhomes

Rapunzel syndrome.

A trichobezoar may be confined to the stomach or unusually it may extend from stomach to the small intestine or beyond when it is labelled as Rapunzel syndrome. Bezoars are concretions in the gastrointestinal tract that increase in size by continuous accumulation of non-absorbable food or fibre. Most bezoars in children are trichobezoars from swallowed hair. Repunzal syndrome is an uncommon con...

Rapunzel syndrome

Not an enchanted place.

I was once asked to take on a new patient by her husband. He came expecting to be turned down because he had been told by others that his request was unreasonable. His once-well wife needed to be in a chronic care setting, but she wanted to live at home. And he wanted her at home too. He needed a physician to organize her home care. I agreed to take her on in my practice, and we started to put ...

A neurologist looks at mind and brain: "the enchanted loom".

For a long time, before we developed an appreciation of the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of the brain, there was uncertainty as to the nature and source of the human mind. Philosophers linked the mind to mythical "humors" that controlled the human body, and others speculated that the mind was associated with "life-force" or soul. Few felt that there was a relation between the human mind and...

The insidiously enchanted forrest

Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective (henceforth: Representation), B.C. van Fraassen’s most recent, 400 page contribution to the philosophy of science, is contemporary, varied, systematic, historical, exciting, provocative, empiricist, pragmatist, profound, sometimes sketchy and accessible. We ground these judgments subsequently whilst treating most of the topics of Representatio...