Post-traumatic camel-related benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
This afternoon at work I was accessioning some journals to the departmental library, among them the latest issue of Travel Medicine, which contains an article entitled as above.
It proved to be written by three ENT surgeons from a university hospital in Rome, and to concern two middle-aged Italians who came to their ENT clinic complaining that they had each fallen off a camel on to their heads while on holiday, and were suffering dizziness as a result. Out of these two cases the surgeons had constructed an entire article in an international peer-reviewed journal, sagely observing that camel-related head injuries are a major health hazard in countries where camels are still an important means of transport.
OK, I know that it's the number rather than the quality of one's publications that matters these days, so why stop there? Perhaps a follow-up article is called for on post-traumatic horse-related benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, and whether, how and why it differs from the camel-related variety? What about the elephant-related strain? A rich vein of research opens up before us, colleghi eccellenti!