Doctors Are Sharing The Wildest Things They've Had To Pull Out Of Patients' Bodies

“17 Barbie doll heads. Their removal was made a bit easier by their long hair.”

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"A foreign body per rectum is a fairly common occurrence. In my time rotating in the ER the most common things have been yuca roots, avocados, shampoo bottles, etc. But that lightbulb story is still unmatched... I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen the X-ray."

"He had to go to the operating room to get it taken out. I bumped into the surgeon a few days later and asked him how it went. He joked to me that 'after we knocked him out, I grabbed a plunger out of the bathroom and got it out that way.' But then told me all he had to do was stick some suction up there till he felt it connect, and then slowly pulled it out."

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