If I just describe to people the feeling of an ant crawling along the back of their neck and up their scalp, you can’t help it, you start to feel itchy and you wonder if that thing is there.
If I just describe to people the feeling of an ant crawling along the back of their neck and up their scalp, you can’t help it, you start to feel itchy and you wonder if that thing is there.Dr. Atul Gawande, authour of “The Itch,” speaking to NPR last week.
In his article, Gawande describes a woman who was “so tormented by an itch” that she would scratch in her sleep. One morning, she woke up with green fluid streaming down her head. She had SCRATCHED THROUGH HER SKULL and INTO HER BRAIN.
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