“The leading suspect,” he concluded, “is a wooden toothpick—an object commonly found in club sandwiches and used for dental hygiene. Toothpick ingestions often go unnoticed, but once identified, they are considered medical emergencies owing to their propensity to cause visceral perforation and vascular injury.”
House season 3 episode 13
Holy hell, nicely done. I vaguely remembered having seen something like this on a tv show but more than a decade ago.
My first thought was Lupus.
It’s never Lupus!
Except that one time