Achieving success as a medical professional requires more than being a hardworking, compassionate, and knowledgeable individual eager to help those in need. It also helps to have a high tolerance for anything that can make the average person feel nauseous.
Check out these stories to see what I mean. These are anecdotes from doctors, dental hygienists, and EMTs who have discovered some of the most bizarre items lodged inside a human body. We’re talking about parasites, plastic toys, eating utensils, and entire wine bottles.
If that has drawn up enough curiosity, go ahead and scroll through. Hopefully, you’re not having a meal while doing so.
#1
Not a doctor, but a former Navy Corpsman. I had a patient come in a few weeks after shooting himself in the femur with a nail from a nail gun. He was on the roof and started to lose his balance, and apparently instinctively placed the nail gun on his leg to keep himself upright. He fell off the roof, pulled out the nail with a pair of vice grips, but couldn’t get all of it. He thought it wasn’t a big deal until one day he was casually walking and his femur snapped in two.
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#2
As an intern I saw a patient with a horrible open abdominal wound that wouldn’t heal, and horrible hygiene with no self-care. He came into the ED due to abdominal pain and we found about 12 maggots buried into and crawling in his large open wound.
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#3
My mom was an ER nurse and someone had shoved an entire wine bottle up their a*s. The bottle created a giant suction, and it had started to pull their intestines out when they attempted to remove it. They had to drill a hole in the base of the bottle to k**l the suction, and then remove the bottle from their a*****e.
It was a pinot noir at least.
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#4
When I was cycling I had a freak event where a bee flew into my mouth and stung my uvula. Rode 8 miles back home with what felt like an awful sore throat. Checked in the mirror and stinger was still lodged in. Went to urgent care after where a doctor had to numb and remove it with tweezers. After successfully removing it he said he has never heard of it happening before and we had a laugh about it. Overall 4/10, unenjoyable forsure but not the worst thing I’ve ever experienced. Was riding with 2 people who were very allergic to bees so would’ve been likely deadly for them. If you want proof check my post history lol.
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#5
I have a frequent flyer who enjoys systematically inserting needles and straightened-out paper clips up his urethra and then coming to the hospital to get them removed.
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#6
My brother had a guy come into his ER several years ago, and found an infection in his urethra. Upon further examination, this guy intentionally stuck a catheter in to bypass the urinary tract, and the other end was hooked up to a bag of wine.
Yes, he made it so he pees out wine as a party trick and people drink it. WTAF.
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#7
Well, when i was posted in the forensics department during my medical school, I once got the opportunity to see a slug lodged in the trachea of a dead man. Yep, that’s how he had died. He choked on a slug while trying to eat it whole (and raw). Oh and he also had two chilies in his pocket which the residents assumed he was gonna eat while eating the slug to make it more spicy.
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#8
As a dentist, we are used to seeing unerupted teeth still stuck in the bone which we call impacted teeth. The 3rd molars are notorious for this. And after them, the canine teeth also get impacted. We confirm this when we see the radiographs of the patient. I was seeing this radiograph of a colleagues patient who had a missing canine which we were expecting on find impacted. We were not able to find it and thought it was missing. On closer inspection, we saw it impacted just below the eye lying horizontally.
Posted this before as well…
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#9
Just a medical student but during one of my rotations in the ICU we had this patient who had not one but two strokes within a 24 hour time period. When he first came to the ED it was clear he having a stroke but his symptoms were relatively mild (some numbness in his fingers, mild difficulty speaking). He didn’t think anything was wrong so he left against medical advice before we could do any serious work up. He came back later in the day with much more severe symptoms and so he immediately got spirited up to the ICU which is where I saw him.
On his MRI it showed signs of “watershed strokes” which are a special kind of brain injury which indicate the brain as a whole is not getting enough blood. We typically see this type of stroke in severe trauma patients who have lost large amounts of blood, but this guy didn’t any have signs of blood loss at all!
We did some more advanced imaging and what we saw was that he was missing BOTH his carotid arteries, and one of his basilar arteries (normal people have two of these that run up from the spinal cord into the brain). So basically he only had one tiny blood vessel perfusing his entire brain. The end result of this was that whenever his blood pressure dropped the slightest amount his brain would get starved for oxygen and he would have a stroke.
The real kicker? Even after being admitted to the ICU and being on multiple pressors to keep this blood pressure up to prevent him from stroking out, he still wanted to leave against medical advice.
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#10
Ophthalmologist here. I saw a schizophrenic patient who was smearing feces into his eye. He had a really bad corneal ulcer.
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#11
While working in the ER, I had a patient come in with a screwdriver for eyeglasses stuck in his urethra. He claims to have picked up a girl at a bar, brought her back to his place, and he must have blacked out from the alcohol during the “activities.” Apparently she didn’t like that, so she grabbed the screwdriver off his nightstand, shoved it in there, and left. He woke up the next morning and it had gotten sucked all the way in to his perineum. You couldn’t even see it anymore, but you could feel its outline during the physical exam.
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#12
Not a doctor but I have to look at X-rays in my role in patient treatment. Dude had a bit of a run-in with a tree stump grinder. There was a straight-up small branch embedded in his calf (that said, most of the calf was hanging off his lower limb) and he had to go in for surgical debridements of the leg almost daily because trees are not very sterile and have a lot of splinters.
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#13
A live cockroach in an ear 🪳👂.
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#14
My uncle is a doctor, he told me about the time he found a fork and knife inside a patient. How it got there or through which orifice it came in through I was never told nor do I want to think about it BUT. I know that he doesn’t like to tell the story.
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#15
Cutaneous diphtheria eating away at the pts leg 😭.
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#16
Ohh, my dental hygienist told me a couple one made her laugh while telling. So we’re limited to the mouth. One was a small grown up vegetable of sort, so probably a seed ended around the teeth and grown. The other made her curious about an abscess she was working over, since the patient was described as clean and no other big problems, so cleaning and cleaning, the cause came out. A hair. By the shape, and the reaction from the patient, which attributed it to the natural toothbrush, it was evidently a pubic hair.
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#17
Couch cushion, a single connect four piece, and half a roll of pennies (different patients).
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#18
“I fell and…”.
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