Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Doctors Blog About the Weirdest Stuff They've Removed From Patients


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From Gizmodo:

Sermo, a members-only website for doctors, asked its doctor users to post about the strangest things they had ever pulled out of their patients. Then, they published some of the weirdest on their public blog. They are very weird, and probably mentally not safe for work. Here are some noteworthy ones, in ascending order of how much they disturbed me:

Allergist & Immunologist:
I once retrieved a plastic helicopter from a child's nose.

General Surgeon:
5 pens, 2 permanent markers, 3 straws, 2 toothbrushes, 4 Oreo cookie wrappers. All at the same time from the stomach of a patient.

Urologist:
At our hospital recently the general surgeons removed from the stomach a bound and gagged barbie doll that the patient had swallowed.

Pathologist:
Large zucchini (rectum). The spiral from a spiral-bound notebook (male urethra). Pencil (male urethra). Cigarette lighter (stomach).

2 comments:

Sarah-Buh-Garah said...

Some people are just plain weird!

But what I'm curious about, is why did these particular doctors have to remove these items from patients, for example the urologist and pathologist? It seems out of their scope of focus.

.hillsy.heart. said...

Who knows?

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