Showing posts with label doctor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doctor. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Toothpick removed from foot after 10 years


The 26-year-old consulted doctors at the clinic in Feldkirch several times to ask for help regarding the agonising pains in her right foot. Doctors decided to x-ray the limb but failed to spot a four-centimetre long piece of toothpick that was stuck deep inside the flesh. Reports have it they claimed the woman was insane and was imagining the pain....More

Friday, September 18, 2009

NC doctor removes plastic fragment lodged in lung

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Doctors say a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits should be OK now that they have removed a 1-inch piece of plastic from his lung, where it had rested since he apparently inhaled it nearly two years ago while sucking down a soft drink at a Wendy's restaurant---...More