Penn Doctor Is Bored With Real Diseases, Makes Up Scarier Ones

Let's be honest, magical realism is the second best literary genre behind I SPY books. As notable marealies (a cool shortened nickname we invented), we were super siked to learn that Penn oncologist Vikram Paralkar is spending his time not researching and treating patients with rare blood cancers, but rather inventing weird, scary diseases that probably came straight out of his nightmares. 

Paralkar's book is titled The Afflictions, drawing influence from the various disgusting diseases most people who wear Affliction shirts suffer from. The book describes ailments such as an amnesia that causes everyone to forget about you and other things we are too scared to even type out. If you want to see a sample or read reviews on the book you can find it here. We recommend it; whatever you end up reading is probably less terrifying than your finals.