Vote Now: They Swallowed What?!

Whatsup, MuFKRs! 🎉

Welcome to another issue of "Is It an Emergency?" — the place where healthcare workers come together to share the wildest, most WTF moments from the ER.

This week’s theme: Things That Should NOT Have Been Swallowed.

Whether it was out of curiosity, confusion, or just straight-up chaos — some people really will put anything in their mouth.

Cast Your Vote: What should absolutely never be swallowed again?

I got called in to do an EX lap in the middle of the night on a 300 pound patient, we were open and just finished the bowel resection, the surgeon was running the bowel when he yelled ouch what the fuck! Me and the assistant asked what happened he said something poked me, we looked confused as he was just running the bowel so nothing should have been sharp, we looked down, there was a TOOTHPICK sticking out of the bowel that the patient had swallowed sometime!

There was a patient who was having a capsule endoscopy. He was told that it would take a couple of days to pass through. It came out faster than he thought it should. So he decided the best thing to do was to swallow it again. The problem was it was all caught in the capsule camera…

Back in my residency, there was a guy who came in with what he claimed was “just a stomach ache.” Turned out, the man had swallowed an entire fork. An entire fork. When we asked him why, he said, “I wanted to see if I could do it.” During the X-ray, we realized the fork wasn’t even the only foreign object in there. He had somehow managed to swallow half a dozen coins, a toy car, and part of a TV remote over the years—just for fun. He said, “Oh, those aren’t bothering me. It’s the fork.”

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Cheers to another week of ER adventures, MuFKRs!

— Steven