Ig Nobel prizes hail 'digital rectal massage'
“I have always hoped to win a real Nobel prize for medicine,” Francis Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine told New Scientist. Nevertheless, he settled for the Ig Nobel prize in
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“Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage” 這一則案例報告確實有獲得 2006 年的搞笑諾貝爾醫學獎。不過需注意這是針對「一名病患」的案例報告（Case report），或許無法導出報導裡「這此效果都不如把食指伸進肛門，緩緩繞圓按摩直腸來得有效」這種敘述。
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Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage. - PubMed
AbstractA 60-year-old man with acute pancreatitis developed persistent hiccups after insertion of a nasogastric tube. Removal of the latter did not terminate the hiccups which had also been treated wi
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