Atul Gawande's "The Itch"

Science writing at its best. Enjoy The Itch by Atul Gawande.

P.S. This artcle is more than two years old and has been linked by others like Guru (http://mogadalai.wordpress.com/) who also linked several other articles by Atul Gawande. I came across it today while looking for progress on phantom limb mirror treatment of V.S. Ramachandran.
P.P.S. Some follow ups of the artcle and much other stuff at http://gawande.com/links