So instead of letting us go 1/2 an hour early, the instructor in my Medical Terminology class decides to show us pictures from colonoscopies and other orthoscopic procedures.
None of the photos are barf worthy, though a couple are pretty nasty looking , especially the ones of the esophagus that has been scarred by stomach acid.
Then she passes around a picture of a Tylenol capsule that is caught in someone’s esophagus. Why is it caught in the esophagus?
Because it is still in the FRIGGING safety square packaging!!! :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack:
Now, I can undertsand if a child swallowed something like this, but the “patient” in this case was 34 years old. How can you be that old and not know about the safety packaging and that you have to remove it???
The mind boggles.
How did the patient ever live to see his 34th birthday?
The same guy probably wonders where the “any” key on his computer is.
I used to work in a hospital, and you wouldn’t believe the things people try to swallow (and often succeed). People with mental difficulties can put all sorts of things into their bodies. One of the more memorable ones I ran across was christmas tree lightbulbs. Several of them. Evidently, they passed unscathed; but the patient would have been in a load of hurt if they’d broken on the way through.
I’m presuming that they had been removed from the electrical string? Assuming nothing-I worked in a hospital, also. They would have lighted the way for a colonoscopy, don’t you think?
Yeah, they were just the bulbs and no cord; but not the little tiny ones you see so many of. These things were about an inch and a half long and about 3/4 inch (or so) in diameter. The patient had managed to swallow about four of five of them. I saw one x-ray of someone who had managed to swallow a table fork handle first. Never heard what they did about that one.
Long story short: stupidity isn’t always the problem.