You have to see the X-rays to believe it. In their new book, Stuck Up!, Drs. Rich Dreben, Murdoc Knight and Marty Sindhian catalog the bizarre collection of “rectal foreign bodies” that patients come to the emergency room to have removed — as well as the tales they tell ER doctors to explain how they got there.
‘Stuck Up!’ Odd Objects Inserted in Odder Places
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This patient said he had brought his knife along on an ocean fishing trip, to cut bait and clean his catch. How did it end up in this unexpected tail? "I was fishing, and I must have fallen asleep and rolled around on the ground where the knife was. Next thing I knew, I had this knife in me," he said, according to the authors. READ: Your Next Surgeon May Not Be Human
