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- From: doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Colonic irrigations
- Keywords: alt medicine
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- Date: 25 Jul 92 13:20:29 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.020521.37791@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> <15806@pitt.UUCP> <1992Jul24.225615.34201@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul24.225615.34201@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders) writes:
- >
- >I was wondering, how large was this jar of mayonnaise? And was it still
- >sealed? I mean do you think it could have been an accident, like a bag of
- >groceries spilling in the car or something like that?
- >
- >;-)
- >
- >Thanks, Alice
-
- I just can't keep myself from adding my own contribution to this wonderful
- thread. When I was a surgery resident I had to operate on a 60 year old man
- who had a 16-oz Coke (Classic) bottle high up almost at the junction of the
- rectum with the sigmoid colon. Not only that, but this was a recurrence of
- this disease in this particular patient, and he had the surgical scars to
- prove it. Ever since I have wondered whether Coke bottles are only locally
- recurrent or have the potential to metastasize.
-
- I took a picture of the Coke bottle superimposed on the patient's abdominal
- X-ray, and gave it to a radiologist who teaches a course for third year
- medical students. One of his lectures deals with this topic, and he has
- titled it The Rectal Horror Picture Show.
-
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- Howard Doyle
- doyle+@pitt.edu
-