Once There Was Needle Biopsy But Now It Has a Camera

The traditional needle biopsy obtains a tissue sample and is then withdrawn to study the tissue obtained 'offline' but now the needle is much more sophisticated since it can take a look around.  (Science Daily:  Needle-sized imaging probe improves image quality, surgical outcome)

The example is not for the faint but suck it up, lil cupcake, since medicine is way past fondling your gonads and asking you to cough.

To provide a better view of difficult to see tissue, researchers have miniaturized an imaging probe to fit inside a needle that can be inserted into the eye during eye surgery.  The probe was used without complications in three human patients, as described in a new article.

- Science Daily

Well, that hurt to read, didn't it, but likely it's a Godsend if you're the one needing it.

This gets better since there's one more detail as they can't put you under for eye surgery because even then the eye wanders about in, presumably, some type of REM sleep even in anesthesia.  Yah, you're awake while they stick a needle in your eye.

Fucking hell.  It was never like this with some old doctor like Marcus Welby.  He could cure anything with some fatherly advice and a pat on the ass.

There's no hooting at what the science does which is spectacularly remarkable.

First, unlike hand-held instruments, the images via probe are generated during surgery to provide real-time information to surgeons.  Second, the miniaturized probe can easily scan more of the eye's interior than microscope-based instruments.

The new technology "demonstrated the precise tissue abnormality objectively during surgery, which means the quality of surgery will become better for the patient," said author Hiroko Terasaki, MD, PhD, of Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine.

- Science Daily

At the same time, the Beverly Hills Housewives think they have the wit to second-guess doctors to give us anti-vaxx ... and measles.

Note:  it's true that Beverly Hills hipsters were deeply-engaged in starting that hysteria and now it's a staple on social networks.

I have had surgery on one eye for a cataract and that was like I described above and I was marginally awake for the procedure in which the lens in my eye was replaced.  Amazingly, I did not go to Beverly Hills to do that and I sure as hell wouldn't go out there for the Eye Needle.

Note:  I was saying don't you worry about the cataract surgery to someone as it's seriously creepy but really not physically extreme or at all painful and only takes a short time.  I don't mean to contradict that in anyway and of course the procedure sucks from the strangeness but at least it's better than playing golf.

My ol' Mother often said, well, 'it's better than being poked in the eye with a sharp stick.'

Dear ol' Mum, I'm sure that's true for just about everything ... but not golf.  Chuck the clubs and bring on the eye surgeon.