Norman Swan

Nice and crunchy.

Small ones are better.

And what's the feedback this week?

I bet you the GP doesn't do it.

Well, just to finish, Martin says, so I imagined it was a known known.

I don't know if it is a known known, actually.

So we believe you there, Martin.

And next time I have a tension headache, I'm going to get out and try and run.

And there's a PS here from anonymous.

I should have said I'm one of those people that have a burr hole drilled in my skull.

You need to listen to this episode, by the way.

I tell an anecdote.

Should I tell the anecdote again?

So we had a very eccentric neurosurgeon at the medical school I went to, and he was giving us a lecture on what's called subdural hematoma.

And this is where you have this bang to your head, and a few days later, the blood clot grows, and it's actually life-threatening because of pressure inside your head.

And he brought in a hand drill to the lecture, and he said, it's safer to take the hand drill from your garage and dip it in cow shit...

and drill the hole than not drill it at all.

So now I go back to Anonymous who says, I should have said that I'm one of those people who have a burr hole drilled in my skull.

My life has been saved thanks to my neurosurgeon doing this and sucking out excess cerebral spinal fluid.

Hopefully it wasn't covered in cow shit at the time.