The metal straw is preserved and remains a famous medical specimen at the Anatomy and Pathology Museum at UC San Francisco.

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      8 hours ago

      yeah it read plainly as a reference to me but people also tell me other people don’t know the kinds of things I do a lot of the time.

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          This is funny because I do actually have a strong background in psychiatry which has a fair amount in common with both neurology and psychology and Phineas Gage’s case is actually a pretty famous one in regards to the historical evolution of all three of those fields.