It is discovered that a piece of one of the bombs ended up lodged in his system, and the foreign material is what has caused his various medical maladies.
In 2009, Variety called the tumor storyline one of the 10 "most bizarre medical maladies" in the first 100 episodes of the show.
In the late 1980s, Carpenter suffered from several medical maladies including tuberculosis, diabetes, and glaucoma.
No, it's not a new medical malady but the problem many people have with the earbuds that ship with portable music players.
Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch demonstrated at length that tzaraath was not to be interpreted as a medical malady, but rather as a spiritual affliction.
Her doctor diagnoses a mental disorder that leads to "disregard for propriety," and she is committed as much for being unruly as for any medical malady.
As a researcher at Recorded Books, the audiobook publisher, Paul Topping hunts for precise pronunciations of foreign expressions, medical maladies and obscure geographical and biological names.
Second baseman José Reyes will turn 21 years old next week, but judging from all of his medical maladies, he is starting to seem significantly older.
Variety listed the episode in its top 10 most bizarre medical maladies encountered in the series.
As a classical piano teacher, I have often seen my medical maladies set aside by doctors for questions about their musical maladies.