# Tapeworm removal GIF **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapeworm-removal-gif/642935 "2012-12-04T05:09:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapeworm-removal-gif/642935/21 "2012-12-05T09:58:04Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Anyone remember that blogger who would talk about how accurate the medical science was on House ? I want to read about the episode TruCelt mentions. It’s not easy to search for, with the name of the show being such a generic word. Is [this](http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html) the one you mean? ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapeworm-removal-gif/642935/22 "2012-12-05T10:36:40Z")
My child once ingested a long slender mushroom of some type that didn’t digest very well. Let me tell you, that ended up… um, being quite a shock when we encountered the tip of this thing peeking out of his digestive tract and pulled out what ended up being 4 inches of it. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapeworm-removal-gif/642935/23 "2012-12-05T11:00:17Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > My child once ingested a long slender mushroom of some type that didn’t digest very well. Your child is beloved of the gods and all of the angels if they can eat strange mushrooms without needing a new liver and two new kidneys afterwords. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapeworm-removal-gif/642935/24 "2012-12-05T13:48:14Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Success! Time for brandy! OK: … you’re a fine girl, what a good wife, you would be… You’re welcome 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapeworm-removal-gif/642935/25 "2012-12-05T13:57:14Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Anyone remember that blogger who would talk about how accurate the medical science was on House ? I want to read about the episode TruCelt mentions. It’s not easy to search for, with the name of the show being such a generic word. [Polite Dissent](http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html)? Googling “House medical accuracy” turned it up as the first link. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapeworm-removal-gif/642935/26 "2012-12-06T11:26:06Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > [Polite Dissent](http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html)? Googling “House medical accuracy” turned it up as the first link. I guess it’s just time to admit that my Google-Fu is gone. I got stuck using “fact checking” instead of accuracy, and I kept getting political stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tapeworm-removal-gif/642935.md?page=1)