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Phillip Comella: We Are Not Paying You to Poop

December 7, 2018

After years of suffering, Phillip Comella discovers the cause of his “excessive bathroom breaks” while working on his thesis in biomedical science.

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In Health and Medicine Tags Phillip Comella, stomach, chronic illness, Season 8, medicine, research

Wes Hazard: Everything Is Wrong

November 11, 2016

Standup comedian Wes Hazard's dangerous chronic illness rears its head while he's on stage one night.

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In Health and Medicine Tags Wes Hazard, comedy, chronic illness, crohn's disease, medicine, stomach

Amy Oestreicher: Life Without a Stomach

November 4, 2016

Amy Oestreicher is a normal teenage theater nerd... until the day her stomach explodes.

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In Health and Medicine Tags Amy Oestreicher, medicine, chronic illness, stomach

Anna Nicanarova: Playing Sick

February 5, 2016

Anna Nicanarova pretends to be sick to get out of a test, but how far will she take the ruse?

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In Health and Medicine Tags Anna Nicanarova, illness, stomach, school, adolescense

Anna Rothschild: Feeling love in your gut

January 6, 2013

Anna Rothschild tells the most adorably gross love story you'll ever hear.

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Tags Anna Rothschild, season 3, love, stomach, relationships

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