ORIENTAL deafness, or selective hearing, is something many suffer from at some stage, but one woman took it to extremes, unintentionally, and no pharmacy drug could help her.
The patient, named as Chen, said she felt sick and could hear ringing in her ears the night before and thought going to sleep might help, but when she awoke she panicked when she realised she was unable to hear her boyfriend talking to her.
ENT specialist Lin Xiaoqing at Qianpu Hospital, in the city of Xiamen, East China, said Chen had lost sensitivity to the lower registers and couldn't discern when a male spoke to her.
Fatigue and stress were thought to have contributed to her problem.
She is expected to make a full recovery - no excuses.
You've probably never thought of it as an occupational hazard, but a drug sniffing police dog in the USA has been given naloxone after suffering a potential overdose from detecting illicit substances on a cruise passenger.
The incident took place at Port Canaveral in Florida, with officers saying the golden retriever, Jake, experienced "seizure like symptoms" after sniffing the arrival following disembarkation from the Norwegian Epic cruise ship yesterday.
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