My good friend Tiina P - an honest to god, certified and gen-yoo-wine doctor of medicine (and a canadian) often regales me via email with some of the things she runs into on a fairly regular basis. So, from time to time, here at The Captain's Table I'll feature one of her delightful tales.
We'll start with an easy one cause, frankly, sometimes Tiina's stories get really gross and have things like people's bellies exploding and whatnot. As Tiina writes today...
THE TALE OF THE PLASTIC FORK
"Weird case of the day: a psychiatric patient a decade ago says "I swallowed a fork" which of course everyone dismisses as him being a psychiatric patient. "Sure you did. Now take your pills." Later, he has tummy trouble- like a lot later- a decade later. and so they put a little camera down on a stick to see what was going on (OK it wasn't on a stick, it was on a tube) and guess what was sitting down there... a white plastic fork circa 1991."
Nice new section. Remind me to tell you about a patient of my dad's who had a real affection for a caulking gun.
Posted by: Cricco | February 18, 2005 at 02:21 PM
And down in these parts hamsters and toenail clippers rule..we have a drunken hick dr living acrosstt the street
Posted by: sunny | February 19, 2005 at 01:13 AM
Reminds me of the commercial I saw on TV last night ... for Cingular I think ... guy brings his dog to the doctor and it turns out the dog swallowed his cell phone ... and it turns out that the phone is on hold ... no concern for the poor dog with the cell phone lodged in his gut ... no, of course not, SO MANY minutes being wasted ... and, oh my GOD!!! roaming charges ... very funny commercial ...
Posted by: Flute | February 20, 2005 at 10:20 AM