Sunday, June 22, 2008

Foreign body in bladder

Here is a disturbing account in the New England Journal of Medicine about a bi polar woman who tried to put a nail in her uterus to deter rape.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/358/25/e29?query=TOC

I wonder if they ever followed up on the hypodense area in her head. They only mention sending her to the psych ward after she "painlessly" passed the nail (!). I can only imagine how out of touch someone would be if they had severe bi polar and a brain tumor. It's rather terrifying.

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