# man coughs up perfect cast of bronchial tree
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 7, 2018, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729 "2018-12-07T03:11:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2018, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729/41 "2018-12-08T04:43:15Z")
I could never work in the medical field. I don’t think I’d ever get used to those things. I respect anyone who does though.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729/42 "2018-12-09T00:32:57Z")
> [@DCnDC](#):
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> It looks just like half of this, but _very_ red, and not drawn (link is an illustration).
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> [https://i.pinimg.com/originals/79/5b/85/795b85a8d55ccde67f270d08abbbc052.jpg](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/79/5b/85/795b85a8d55ccde67f270d08abbbc052.jpg)
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> Personally I don’t find it disgusting at all, but I see gross medical stuff all the time. We always warn the new employees, “Whatever you do, do NOT thumb through the dermatology books. Trust me.”
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I collect old medical books, and once had a book with pictures that were even grosser than anything in dermatology, and that’s why I don’t have it any more. I’ll spoiler the title because it could potentially trigger some people.
[spoiler]It was from the 1940s and was titled “Fetal And Neonatal Death.” Most of the pictures were from miscarriages and the deformities seemed unique, but others were of term infants. Before I went back to school, I worked with an elderly woman who had had a second-trimester miscarriage many years before, and the fetus was so perfect, they wanted to put him on display at a medical school. Some people were totally grossed out at the idea, but I thought it was wonderful that she could turn this sad event into something positive, especially because they probably don’t get very many perfect-looking babies from miscarriages.
I have another book, even older than that, titled “Extrauterine Pregnancy” and it’s not that gross.[/spoiler]
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729/43 "2018-12-09T02:29:29Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> I wonder if he was from a lesser-developed country and had rheumatic fever, or some kind of birth defect that wasn’t corrected until he was much older than it’s normally done in this country. It’s very unusual for someone who’s 36 to have a valve replacement, in addition to all the other problems he had.
Jeez! I’ll say…I was gaping when I read the part where the poor fellow had a pacemaker and a VAD installed. ☹
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729/44 "2018-12-09T02:47:21Z")
> [@Jasmine](#):
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> He goes through that on a “regular basis”?! :eek:
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> I think I’d rather eat a bullet and be done with it. ☹
Mine were sea green and didn’t go beyond the first branching. My solution topped eating a bullet: regular flu and pneumonia shots. Less messy.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729/45 "2018-12-09T05:17:48Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> _Who the fuck came up with this whole life thing, anyway_??? :mad:
Seriously! Not only is it expensive, it’s 100% fatal!
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### Author:  [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729/46 "2018-12-09T18:39:02Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#):
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> In the disgusting-but-amazing department (beware, vivid color photo at link):
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> [Cast of the Right Bronchial Tree](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1806493)
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> :eek:
So THAT’S where the White House got the idea for this year’s decorations!
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729/47 "2018-12-09T19:11:34Z")
I can’t tell if that’s the collest or the most disgusting thing I’ve seen all day. Maybe both.
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### Author:  [@MarvinKitFox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarvinKitFox)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729/48 "2018-12-10T18:04:39Z")
Thank you for sharing that.
It was informative, intriguing, fascinating even.
and it should serve as nightmare fodder for the next several days, possibly weeks.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729/49 "2018-12-10T18:38:40Z")
Let me get out my list of links I never plan on clicking.
Okay, there’s goatse, two girls one cup, pimple popping.
Add man coughs up perfect cast of bronchial tree to the list.
Alright, I’m done here.
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### Author:  [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729/50 "2018-12-11T01:34:55Z")
So this guy’s cast, and plastic bronchitis, aren’t the same type of lung cast.
I’ve now learned more in the past few days about a topic (lung casts) that I didn’t know existed before. And that I somewhat wish I could forget.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729/51 "2018-12-11T04:53:57Z")
EmilyG, just be thankful you found out about them here, and not from personal experience.
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### Author:  [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2018, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729/52 "2018-12-11T05:42:50Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> _Who the fuck came up with this whole life thing, anyway_??? :mad:
“Nobody _we_ know, that’s for sure.”
–_The Boys in the Band_
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### Author:  [@MarvinKitFox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarvinKitFox)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2018, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-coughs-up-perfect-cast-of-bronchial-tree/825729/53 "2018-12-11T06:15:18Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Let me get out my list of links I never plan on clicking.
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> Okay, there’s goatse, two girls one cup, pimple popping.
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> Add man coughs up perfect cast of bronchial tree to the list.
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> Alright, I’m done here.
Blue waffle.
Definitely, that needs to go on your list.
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