“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.”
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
I’ve said that for the longest time too because of House… And then my sister got diagnosed with lupus about 2 weeks ago. I’ve been lied to!
The reason it’s never Lupus on House is because Lupus is well known and all the doctors want to diagnose it because it’s cool and fun to say, but his whole deal is figuring out the things they missed