A patient discovered a coin stuck in his colon: "I do not remember swallowing it"
During a routine colonoscopy, the gastroenterologist found a coin in his patient's colon - in the part furthest from the anus.
Neither the doctor nor the patient knows how he got there
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30/05/2022
Monday, 30 May 2022, 23:54
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"The weirdest thing I've ever found in someone's ass" (@docschmidt)
The physician and gastroenterologist, Dr. Benjamin Schmidt, is a revered tic-tac-toe.
His channel (@docschmidt) has almost half a million followers, to whom he gives a glimpse into the world of doctors and nurses, usually in an amusing way.
In some of his videos he talks about exceptional medical cases he has encountered during his career.
In a video that garnered over 2 million views, the doctor revealed that during a routine colonoscopy examination of a patient with a history of colon cancer, he noticed a coin stuck in his bowel.
While cases of patients coming to the emergency room with objects stuck in the rectal area, closest to the anus, are common - the likelihood of an object getting stuck in the area of the colon, furthest from the anus, is almost nil - making this case particularly rare.
Dr. Schmidt, 31, who works in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. According to the doctor, he was no less surprised by the strange find and said that he had no idea how the coin got there and when exactly he swallowed it.
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Dr. Benjamin Schmidt found a coin in his patient's colon (Photo: screenshot, tiktok.com/@docschmidt)
Dr. Schmidt later told the Mirror: "I had a routine colonoscopy - which is something I do 4-5 times a day - and when I got to the colon, I found a coin there. I had never seen anything like it and the patient did not remember ever swallowing something like that."
He added: "This video has become very popular. I think videos about exceptional medical cases and findings work well, because of human curiosity. Videos about objects found in patients' anus are certainly astonishing, but I think this video was especially successful because of "His level of mystery. The coin that is not in the anus, but in the part of the colon that cannot be easily reached. We really do not know how the coin got there!"
Here is the Doctor's full story:
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The video garnered hundreds of comments.
"He swallowed a coin a few years ago and you know ... inflation," one wrote with a laugh and another added: "Maybe he tried to detail."
Another user seemed concerned: "I swallowed a coin as a child and never thought to check what's up with it ... until now."
Another gastroenterologist said in response: "In the past, I took out a garden stone with the words 'carp carp' engraved on it (take advantage of the day). That's exactly what I did."
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