So one day they rushed this male patient over to the OR from the ER for an exploratory lap. Fine! No! Problem! I've done that many times. Sure I was only into my second year as a RN working in surgery, but by then exploratory laps were standard to me. The patient came in the room moaning and groaning, must be an appendicitis I thought. Put to sleep, positioned lithotomy style (interesting right?), preped and draped. Lithotomy was not normal but you're the doctor! So what are we exploring for I asked the chief resident. He sticks the x-ray into the lighted x-ray pannel. What the heck is that? It looks like a! Is that a? Is that in the sigmoid colon? How did it get there? Why isn't anyone answering me? I felt so naive! From that point nothing surprised me again. Ended up doing a sigmoid colon resection on the poor guy. Can you guess what it was? What was your most bizarre OR experience?
George:
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